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I use Emacs every day. But only for org-mode which is fantastic. Besides that I really really tried hard to love Emacs as my go-to editor. However I found no a
by jhoechtl 7y ago
I use Emacs every day. But only for org-mode which is fantastic.
Besides that I really really tried hard to love Emacs as my go-to editor. However I found no alternative for
decent CSV file support (like https://github.com/chrisbra/csv.vim https://github.com/chrisbra/csv.vim simply great!)
Inspecting large XML files with syntax highlighting and folding. VIM is also not the fastest here but at least 10 times faster (emacs SGML mode is a joke for xml files and forcing xhtml mode of web-mode is also not that great)
Maybe all my emacs doing was just wrong.
- thom 7y agoSad to see you're being downvoted for valid points. I'll admit I'm glad I don't have a job that involves staring at CSV or XML all day but I've found csv-mode and SimpleEmacsSpreadsheet lacking over the years, and large XML files can indeed be slow.
- Wildgoose 7y agoI wonder if some of the down-votes is from people who have tried to edit large XML files in the past with vi (Note: original vi, not vim) and discovered it chokes and fails to do so, complaining of over-long lines. One of the reasons I switched from vi to Emacs in the very distant past was for this specific reason. (Vim did exist, but it wasn't installed on the old Unix machines I was working on).
- smabie 7y agocsv-mode does exactly what you want.