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Ugh. Not sure about you, but I think HN should be a IDE/Editor blog post restricted site. There was recently a thread on erlang-general that was almost 100 re
by dylanz 17y ago
Ugh. Not sure about you, but I think HN should be a IDE/Editor blog post restricted site.
There was recently a thread on erlang-general that was almost 100 replies long. It started out as "Is Erlang a Good First Language?"... then slowly dissolved into "IDE Bashing". I had to switch my mailing list options to digest I was getting so many emails each day with personal rants.
The thing is, Emacs and Vim are awesome, and they are "huge" programs. Also, they are "extremely" flexible, so one persons preferences might be way different than the others. For example, the blog post here uses MacVim and GVim? That's crazy talk (IMHO).
RTFM!
- blasdel 17y agoThat's horrible! No one should ever have to use digest mode, especially since it makes the list even worse for everyone else. Maybe you should get a better email client? I know some people that use Gmail as a mailing list client independently from their normal mail.
- jamesbritt 17y ago"Maybe you should get a better email client? " I hear Emacs is an E-mail client ...
- jrockway 17y agoAnd it manages mailing lists quite well.
- adam_lowe 17y agoThe reason MacVim and GVim were both mentioned was b/c the setup mentioned would work with either. Never messed with setting up Vim on Windows and wanted to be explicit as to not lead people down a painful path or to get troubleshooting requests. The other intent was to show people how they could easily set up Vim as a robust Rails editor without needing to learn a ton about how to install Vim plugins which normally assume a strong understanding of Vim to install and get started with.