Uhhh
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This took a while to drop, but fuuuck, did it hurt when it did. In a good way.
That'll be £50!
I don't understand the joke, but WHY DOES A TEXT EDITOR HAVE A PACKAGE MANAGER?
It’s been years since editors started getting their packages. I would guess Emacs was late to the game actually. If you’re only ever used notepad, the manager is there to install additional features such as syntax support for new languages, refactoring tools, navigation commands and more.
Even notepad++ has plugins and themes
Cos otherwise you'd be manually patching and eval'ing extensions every time you wanted to extend functionality.
As for explaining the joke, I refuse to -- my comedy genius knows no bounds, and if it can't be appreciated in this era of human civilization then I shall wait until the next