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In what way is Emacs being "deliberately harmed"?
by aaron_m04 12y ago
In what way is Emacs being "deliberately harmed"?
- anon1385 12y agoIt has worse code completion and refactoring support for C and C++ than it should have. Emacs users are forced to switch to other tools (like proprietary IDEs or LLVM based tools) when they need to do complex refactoring to c++ codebases. It could be improved (should have been years ago) but RMS has stated that he would block the inclusion of code to do those things if they use a GCC plugin that exports the full AST. This is all discussed in the original mailing list thread and it's why one of the core emacs devs suggested forking.
- esrauch 12y agoSee the thread that prompted this: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00171.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00... Basically, an Emacs maintainer thinks that this gcc restriction is so harmful to important emacs features that he would be willing to "consider a fork"