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> It's impressive how Sublime perform well despite having so many advanced features. Does it have any features which emacs — which outperforms it — lacks?
by zeveb 10y ago
> It's impressive how Sublime perform well despite having so many advanced features.
Does it have any features which emacs — which outperforms it — lacks?
- hartator 10y agoMulti cursors that allow notably powerful column editing will be the main one. For example, it might be the very best - and fun - interactive way to transform a weird CSV in a regular JS array or anything else.
- jorams 10y agoThere's an emacs package for that[1]. It's not as well integrated and there are some rough edges, but it's incredibly useful. I use it a lot. Often for quick local refactoring, but also for larger things like you mentioned. [1]: https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el
- zeveb 10y agoThere's https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el https://github.com/magnars/multiple-cursors.el And also keyboard macros, which are more often used for the use case you mention.
- JorgeGT 10y agoAs shown in the test, editing very large files.
- zeveb 10y agoFair point — although I do edit ½-gigabyte files pretty commonly.
- josteink 10y agoIn general, editing large files in Emacs is super-fast. What's NOT super-fast is editing files with super-long lines (it doesn't even have to be a "big" file). For whatever technical reason, that can grind Emacs to a halt. I'd love to see that bug fixed myself.