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Emacs - even a novice elisp programmer has more power to automate their Emacs environment than I've seen in any other tool. If you've ever wondered how a small
by dangirsh 10y ago
Emacs - even a novice elisp programmer has more power to automate their Emacs environment than I've seen in any other tool. If you've ever wondered how a small community managed to maintain near feature-parity with popular IDEs for 3 decades, this is it.
- girzel 10y agoMe too. I'm now much more proficient in emacs-lisp than in Python, my second-best language. I don't write bash scripts often enough to remember all the gotchas. It's a little embarrassing how much I do through emacs: manipulating the file system, url fetching, RPC... stuff you really shouldn't be doing with your text editor. But hey, the tool you know...
- davelnewton 10y agoI'd disagree on "feature parity" for some usecases. For example, I used Emacs as my Java IDE for some time, but it lost that race in a hurry as IDEs caught up to JDEE. And it wasn't even close within a year or two after that. I'm not even sure if Emacs will hold up to tools like IntelliJ for Ruby/Rails/JavaScript development at this point, although in that space it's a lot closer. Overall, however, I agree: Emacs is freakin' awesome. Heck, I booted into it as my shell for a few years. I keep meaning to get back into it but I rarely have the time, and I need to learn more Vim as well. Time is the enemy.