Emacs vs Dolphin

Emacs can be controlled entirely with the keyboard. While true, I often find the mouse and menus handy for those lesser-used commands. An aide-memoir.

Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp). A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza).

You can debug, compile, manage files, integrate with version control systems, etc. All through the various plugins that can be installed.

Licensed under GNU GPL.

With 30+ years of use the Emacs documentation is very thorough. There are also a lot of tutorials and guides written by third parties.

You can use Emacs' command line interface or graphical user interface.

Emacs has extensive help support built-in as well as a tutorial accessed with C-h t.

You can pass complicated arguments in the mini buffer.

Fully compliant GNU-emacs is available on many platforms, and they all understand .emacs configuration files.

Emacs can select rectangularly.

With lisp customization, any behavior of Emacs can be changed. Update with pre-release patch can be also applied without recompiling the whole Emacs.

Advanced planning and publication which can start as a simple list.

Evil mode emulates vim behaviors within Emacs. It enables Vi users to move inside the Emacs universe.

Through its programmability, a very broad range of functionalities can be integrated in emacs, turning it even into a "single point of contact" with the underlying operating system.

Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It provides Vim features like Visual selection and text objects.

Works on Linux, Windows, Macintosh, BSD, and others.

Review the "Emacs Rocks" video.

Dynamic word completion.

You can jump straight from your org-mode files to programming tasks - and back - and build a seamless workflow.

Powerful commands, search, and more with the Helm plugin.

Since version 25 you can run GTK widgets inside Emacs buffers. One of these is the WebKitGTK+, which allows the user to run a full-featured web browser inside Emacs with JavaScript and CSS support among other things.

Emacs is great for everything.

Emacs has a number of shell variants: ansi-term, shell, and eshell.

Managing several large mailing lists has never been easier using Gnus. The threading commands and the various ways of scoring articles means that I never miss important messages/authors, etc. A joy to use.

As with any KDE app, Dolphin, allows adding or modifying toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts.

Dolphin supports splitting the view in two navigational areas, this way you can navigate two different directories at the same time.

Dolphin follows KDE's philosophy of being extendable and configurable. It can easily be configured and customized through plugins.

Dolphin automatically identifies and mounts external flash drives.

Pressing F4 with any opened folder on a mounted path opens a console within dolphin.

Dolphin is without a doubt the best fully functional and easy to use and multitask with.
Dolphin also has a refresh button which no other File manager has. It's great for tracking a large files transfer; that's what file managers are for - good common sense.

Supports HiDPI displays.

Pictures with or without previews is optional and selectable at the touch of a button.

Unlike all those GTK-based file managers it does not have to rely on external written software for its functionality because KF5 is KDE SOftware and developed alongside.