# Emacs skill, or other editor?
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/emacs-skill-or-other-editor/11678
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [December 29, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/emacs-skill-or-other-editor/11678 "2021-12-29T14:08:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@mike99mac](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/mike99mac)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 2:08pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/emacs-skill-or-other-editor/11678/1 "2021-12-29T14:08:19Z")
Hello Mycrofters,
I’ve been corresponding with Richard Stallman, extolling the freedom, openness and privacy of Mycroft (yeah, that guy, arguably the father of GNU/Linux). He asks if he can use Mycroft to become more proficient at Emacs. Has anyone written such a skill? Or one for vi/vim/nano etc.?
Thanks.
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-Mike M
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### Author:  [@goldyfruit](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/goldyfruit)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/emacs-skill-or-other-editor/11678/2 "2021-12-29T15:52:24Z")
Do you have any use cases in mind?
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### Author:  [@mike99mac](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/mike99mac)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2021, 5:35pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/emacs-skill-or-other-editor/11678/3 "2021-12-29T17:35:20Z")
How about "Hey Mycroft -
- Open file ‘x’ in Emacs"
- Replace text ‘foo’ with ‘bar’"
- Show all occurrences of text ‘foo’"
- Go to line ‘n’"
- Save file
- etc.
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### Author:  [@sparkyvision](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/sparkyvision)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/emacs-skill-or-other-editor/11678/4 "2021-12-30T20:17:34Z")
> He asks if he can use Mycroft to become more proficient at Emacs.
More proficient? Didn’t he like…write large chunks of GNU Emacs?
I gotta say (and this is just like, my opinion, man) but using Mycroft to edit a text file with any text editor sounds like trying to use a coffee grinder to peel a banana.
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### Author:  [@mike99mac](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/mike99mac)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2021, 8:46pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/emacs-skill-or-other-editor/11678/5 "2021-12-30T20:46:15Z")
@sparkyvision - More recently, he said he’d also like to be able to dictate. So think of taking notes or writing a letter without needing to use the keyboard.
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-Mike M
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### Author:  [@goldyfruit](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/goldyfruit)
#### Post date: [December 30, 2021, 11:46pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/emacs-skill-or-other-editor/11678/6 "2021-12-30T23:46:13Z")
All of these will be Python related, not editors _(vim, emacs, pico, nano, etc…)_ related _(my opinion)_.
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### Author:  [@builderjer](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/builderjer)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/emacs-skill-or-other-editor/11678/7 "2021-12-31T13:06:56Z")
Have you seen [this](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/openvscode-server-replacement-for-old-theiaide-skill/11682)?