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@paequ2@lemmy.today "Emacs" will launch a new instance of Emacs, while "Emacs (Client)" will connect to an already running Emacs Server – unless Emacs takes a long time to start up you may not notice a difference.
Doom and Spacemacs are predefined configurations for Emacs that include many additional packages and custom settings, all of which you could manually add to your own Emacs configuration if you had the time and patience. They both include a range of opinionated decisions about what packages to include and how Emacs should look and feel, which may or may not suit you. I don't use either of them, but if you're coming from Vim you might find them interesting because they provide a similar modal editing experience.
Oooooh, ok. Thanks for breaking that down.
What about Emacs GUI vs Emacs TUI? Do people run Emacs as a terminal app? Or is the typical way of running Emacs as a GUI app? How's the shell integration with the GUI app? Normally, I like staying in the terminal.
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Why not both? I run Emacs with --daemon and have shortcuts to launch a new terminal frame in #tmux or a hot key to spawn a gui frame. I leave the daemon up all week and can rejoin a terminal session remotely if I need to or have slightly nicer fonts sat at my desk.
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