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IDE 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.
by theokrueger 1mo ago
IDE 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 1mo 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 1mo 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 1mo agoYes just adding to the point you gave.
- inigyou 1mo agoAn interface that does everything does nothing well.
- kodoman 1mo 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 1mo agoWhat's Eclipse then?
- theokrueger 1mo 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.