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> Emacs has [...] no autocomplete, and doesn't show available functions My impression is that you are not familiar with Emacs.
by underatree 5y ago
> Emacs has [...] no autocomplete, and doesn't show available functions
My impression is that you are not familiar with Emacs.
- deworms 5y agoI have been using emacs for 7 years prior to switching to VS Code. Never looked back. It's better in all regards.
- underatree 5y agoSorry for misunderstanding. I see now that you meant autocompletion like LSP (rather than M-x minibuffer completion). Emacs could benefit from built-in LSP, I agree. Emacs-devel are keen for it, and eglot.el is a good contender for inclusion.
- d0mine 5y agoCould name a single specific feature that somebody who uses emacs for years is missing? (perhaps, a link to a video if it is hard to describe concisely would be useful) I've tried recently to steal some features from VS Code but nothing fundamental came up. I've discovered the gitlens' git-blame overlay feature but it is cosmetics (I use magit-blame). btw, the feature is available as blamer emacs package (just add the corresponding (use-package) elegant declaration to your .emacs). I use tramp to run remote commands using Org-babel all of the time. Obviously, emacs can edit remote files just fine too. What am I missing?
- 2pEXgD0fZ5cF 5y ago> I have been using emacs for 7 years prior to switching to VS Code. Based on what you've been claiming I doubt that.
- alex_smart 5y agoYou used emacs for 7 years without learning that it very much has auto-completion, you can see available functions with fuzzy matching, and that you can easily alias any function to any name or key-binding you want instead of memorizing it? :-O