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Think about why one needs a sofisticated customization in an editor. It implies it's defaults reflecting the workflow of the developers are significantly differ

Think about why one needs a sofisticated customization in an editor. It implies it's defaults reflecting the workflow of the developers are significantly different from yours. To fix this you essentially must become a developer. And since the feature you want is not what the developers want, your has to maintain the feature as long as you use the editor. Now think about all the time one spends on that. If it does not feel like fun or hobby, then one better try to find some other editor that matches what one wants by default or after 5 minutes of poking in the preferences menu.

gkya 8y ago
Anybody can use any tool to their liking, obviously. But again, you are objectively wrong with Emacs. Every programmer has certain things they need to automate, certain recurrent tasks and then certain non-programming stuff. I am not a professional ptogrammer, and I use Emacs for a handful of non programming tasks. I do tens of things daily with it that is plain impossible with a preferences menu, and impossible or prohibitively hard to do with other programs. Edit: Now I'm on the computer, I can link you to my init.el [1] so that you can skim and observe how much is configuration and how much is stuff that's possibly unique to my workflow. And how much is very useful stuff only possible in Emacs (one of my favourites is the URL routing stuff, at line 3674, something I inadvertently use tens of times a day). [1] https://github.com/cadadr/configuration/blob/6a1e400488839b7930e298a04dd5362894c73f79/emacs.d/init.el https://github.com/cadadr/configuration/blob/6a1e400488839b7...