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Parts of TextMate [still have an effective age under 4 months]. Emacs has had decades of development. Although your tone suggests you want to use this as a ju
by mnemonicsloth 18y ago
Parts of TextMate [still have an effective age under 4 months]. Emacs has had decades of development.
Although your tone suggests you want to use this as a justification for sticking with TM, it sounds a point in favor of Emacs to me.
- swombat 18y agoNot necessarily... emacs has decades' worth of features that can't be removed anymore, because of some obscure usage that only 0.1% of the users bother with. This results in bloat and confusion for users who don't use those features.
- silentbicycle 18y agoThe vast majority of said features are in modules that aren't loaded by default. Not all of them, but most. In other words, they are removed by default.
- jacobolus 18y agoNo. It is not a justification for anything. It is merely an observation that one cannot make claims about emacs being ”more powerful” or “more extensible” based on the number of extensions it has, because they have been developing over many years, and shouldn’t be over-hasty in criticizing areas of its development which will be dramatically improved in the next release (not that it shouldn’t be criticized, notice).