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I'm not familiar with emacs. Does that mean that you don't need to install any supporting software like indexers, linters, syntax highlighters, etc? Does the em

by Osiris 6y ago

I'm not familiar with emacs. Does that mean that you don't need to install any supporting software like indexers, linters, syntax highlighters, etc? Does the emacs file contain all that or tell it how to download all the plugins? If you could just copy one file and get all that, that's pretty cool.

ekko911 6y ago
The "Emacs file" can contain that yes. Since .emacs is written in Lisp (Emacs Lisp) you can basically tell it to do anything om start up.
Alex63 6y ago
The 'one file' installs the other tools for you. At least mine does. I move between machines regularly, and when I do I just install emacs according to the recommended method for the particular OS and copy my init.el file to the new machine. All the packages I depend on are installed the first time I run emacs. And my init.el would be considered pretty basic by the standards of an advanced user.
ipv6ipv4 6y ago
No. It doesn’t. You still need to install and configure plenty of 3rd party packages and tools that are completely outside of emacs. For C++, things like cscope, ctags (or maybe etags or gtags), clang autocomplete tooling, etc. These, their dependencies and layouts, typically change from machine to machine, OS to OS, distribution to distribution and version to version. So placing it in your emacs config isn’t really portable.
- Scarbutt 6y ago
  Same for vscode? ex: if you want eslint, you install it from npm.
  - ipv6ipv4 6y ago
    My experience with VS code has been a couple clicks for C++, Python (2 & 3), and a smattering of other languages and configuration files (YAML, cmake, etc.) on a fairly large (~1MLoC) enterprise code base. Another click for remote editing over ssh. No pain and most importantly no constant tinkering. VS Code started very humbly a few years back and was useless to me because it only supported JavaScript and a couple other things with no plugins to speak of. It has since grown into a seriously powerful tool.
chrischen 6y ago
You install something like spacemacs or doom emacs for vs code parity. And then it lazy loads packages based on the file type. You enable features in config by uncommenting, and it auto installs.

by Osiris 6y ago

ekko911 6y ago

The "Emacs file" can contain that yes. Since .emacs is written in Lisp (Emacs Lisp) you can basically tell it to do anything om start up.

Alex63 6y ago

The 'one file' installs the other tools for you. At least mine does. I move between machines regularly, and when I do I just install emacs according to the recommended method for the particular OS and copy my init.el file to the new machine. All the packages I depend on are installed the first time I run emacs. And my init.el would be considered pretty basic by the standards of an advanced user.

ipv6ipv4 6y ago

No. It doesn’t. You still need to install and configure plenty of 3rd party packages and tools that are completely outside of emacs. For C++, things like cscope, ctags (or maybe etags or gtags), clang autocomplete tooling, etc. These, their dependencies and layouts, typically change from machine to machine, OS to OS, distribution to distribution and version to version. So placing it in your emacs config isn’t really portable.

Scarbutt 6y ago
Same for vscode? ex: if you want eslint, you install it from npm.
- ipv6ipv4 6y ago
  My experience with VS code has been a couple clicks for C++, Python (2 & 3), and a smattering of other languages and configuration files (YAML, cmake, etc.) on a fairly large (~1MLoC) enterprise code base. Another click for remote editing over ssh. No pain and most importantly no constant tinkering. VS Code started very humbly a few years back and was useless to me because it only supported JavaScript and a couple other things with no plugins to speak of. It has since grown into a seriously powerful tool.

chrischen 6y ago

You install something like spacemacs or doom emacs for vs code parity. And then it lazy loads packages based on the file type. You enable features in config by uncommenting, and it auto installs.