寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Monday, 23-Jan-2023 11:38:52 JST
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In Artix, default Emacs is with GUI, Emacs without a GUI (so via a terminal) is emacs-nox.
Would have made more sense to have it the other way around; have the default Emacs be the no GUI one, while the GUI should have been emacs-gui.
But that's just me I guess.
And it's not just Artix, here's what I find on OpenBSD if I do "pkg_query emacs":
Flavors:
no_x11 - build without X11 support
athena - build with athena toolkit instead of gtk3
gtk2 - build with gtk2 instead of gtk3
gtk3 - build with gtk3 (default)
And on Devuan "emacs" is a meta package, but installs the GTK version by default even on a server with no X or Wayland.
For non-GUI Emacs: emacs-nox
And while we're at it, FreeBSD too goes along with the GTK meme, with "emacs-nox" being the non-GUI one.
So while clearly Emacs prefers GUI over TUI, Vim is the exact opposite of that, as the TUI is preferred over GUI.