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I am very, very good with Emacs. There are no other editing platforms that have its power and convenience. If I didn't have it, I would be forced to invent it.

by kabdib 15y ago

I am very, very good with Emacs. There are no other editing platforms that have its power and convenience. If I didn't have it, I would be forced to invent it. (I did in fact do a small Emacs implementation for a microcomputer, back in the 80s. It was fun). My customizations? Nada. I rarely bother. My ".emacs" file is about 20 lines long, mostly turning stuff off that I don't care for. If you whip up a tool that is /better/ at working with million-line-plus projects in C/C++, let me know. You seem to be on fire about it. [I use Visual Studio for C#, and for its debugger. But the heavy lifting is still done in Emacs]

derpsaidderp 15y ago
That's the thing though. You're comment about the debugger? That gives it all away. My comment isn't just about emacs. It's about all the tools we use. There is no real incentive to fix them. To make them work together. We wait for other people to make it. We all wait. I can't whip up a tool better than emacs. I can't even imagine it. But, that doesn't mean it can't exist. And you're attitude towards my complaints? That's probably putting off your coworker, someone who could invent it.
- dextorious 15y ago
  There are better complaints than yours. I can't whip up some. I can't even imagine them. But, that doesn't mean they can't exist. This is your bizarro logic in action. "Something better surely exists". Well, no shit Sherlock. Either 1) do something, 2) propose something better than someone else can implement, or 3) shut up. Your comments are idiotic. Who told you that there aren't real people out there trying to implement something better than Emacs? XCode 4's use of an actual parser's AST for code completion, refactoring and syntax highlighting comes to mind. Or Visual Studio's overall integration. Or even Eclipse meta-platform extensibility. Subethaedit's concurrent editing ability. And a lot more stuff, besides... "Where are my robot ponies and flying-cars, they just have to be" is idiotic.
access_denied 15y ago
Was it MicroEmacs for the Amiga?

by kabdib 15y ago

derpsaidderp 15y ago

That's the thing though. You're comment about the debugger? That gives it all away. My comment isn't just about emacs. It's about all the tools we use. There is no real incentive to fix them. To make them work together. We wait for other people to make it. We all wait. I can't whip up a tool better than emacs. I can't even imagine it. But, that doesn't mean it can't exist. And you're attitude towards my complaints? That's probably putting off your coworker, someone who could invent it.

dextorious 15y ago
There are better complaints than yours. I can't whip up some. I can't even imagine them. But, that doesn't mean they can't exist. This is your bizarro logic in action. "Something better surely exists". Well, no shit Sherlock. Either 1) do something, 2) propose something better than someone else can implement, or 3) shut up. Your comments are idiotic. Who told you that there aren't real people out there trying to implement something better than Emacs? XCode 4's use of an actual parser's AST for code completion, refactoring and syntax highlighting comes to mind. Or Visual Studio's overall integration. Or even Eclipse meta-platform extensibility. Subethaedit's concurrent editing ability. And a lot more stuff, besides... "Where are my robot ponies and flying-cars, they just have to be" is idiotic.

access_denied 15y ago

Was it MicroEmacs for the Amiga?