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They are using Emacs that's basically an IDE.
by kodoman 2mo ago
They are using Emacs that's basically an IDE.
- theokrueger 2mo agoIDE tends to be a curated tool for one specific language though. I guess in that sense Emacs is an ELisp IDE, but without any sense of curation.
- kodoman 2mo agoYeah and you just have one interface that you have to know and customize rather then 100. not to mention the pleasure of shell mode and and tramp and dired. I feel people are missing out not using emacs or emacs like tools where all your customization and custom functions, bindings and minor modes apply to everything else you do (should they be applicable).
- theokrueger 2mo agohaha I am in fact a long-standing near-vanilla emacs user. never said it being uncurated was a bad thing, the customizability is unrivalled and the reason I use it.
- kodoman 2mo agoYes just adding to the point you gave.
- inigyou 2mo agoAn interface that does everything does nothing well.
- kodoman 2mo agoStrongly disagree, Having a generalized interface IE text and being to manipulate things as text using all the same commands and functions is better then bespoke interfaces for everything else. It's not like you don't have custom interfaces for various things but that the interface is a text buffer and can be treated as such in all emacs modes.
- inigyou 2mo agoWhat's Eclipse then?
- theokrueger 2mo ago...a series of IDEs offering curated experiences for a specific target language The Java and C++ IDEs are separate packages built on a shared base.