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Good question. From my perspective, it's a text editor done properly which doesn't get in your way. You almost don't feel it. Put it another way - there are v

Good question. From my perspective, it's a text editor done properly which doesn't get in your way. You almost don't feel it. Put it another way - there are very few annoyances that I've noticed about it. It's very fast, it's configurable, it takes me 2 minutes to set it up on a new machine and have the same environment, regardless of the OS. Here's a story: I've recently started learning Clojure and I've been looking into editors which are best suited for it - I've tried LightTable, looks nice, but still rough around edges and slow, I've given a (new) shot to Emacs, but got discouraged when I realised I'd still have to learn all the shortcuts and stuff in addition to Clojure, IntelliJ Idea.... But then it struck me - does Sublime have a Clojure REPL ? It sure does and it's very nice.. 10 minutes later I was hacking away with a split screen and REPL, just like in Emacs. And I didn't have to do anything complicated, no files to edit, no environment vars to set up, it was easy.

escherize 12y ago
This sounds like a compelling way to get non-emacs users to start hacking clojure! Then, sorry if it sounds nit-picky, but hacking some clojure with a split-screen and REPL is not just like emacs. Cider [1] has like a million features that elevate it above just a repl + code. Then there's clojure refactor mode [2] which lets you rename files and keep the namespaces in sync, unwind threaded forms, and 30+ other things.
- Ironballs 12y ago
  For those curious, escherize means: [1] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider [2] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el The examples in [3] showcase the features of clj-refactor rather neatly. [3] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el/tree/master/examples https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el/tree/master...

escherize 12y ago

This sounds like a compelling way to get non-emacs users to start hacking clojure! Then, sorry if it sounds nit-picky, but hacking some clojure with a split-screen and REPL is not just like emacs. Cider [1] has like a million features that elevate it above just a repl + code. Then there's clojure refactor mode [2] which lets you rename files and keep the namespaces in sync, unwind threaded forms, and 30+ other things.

Ironballs 12y ago
For those curious, escherize means: [1] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider [2] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el The examples in [3] showcase the features of clj-refactor rather neatly. [3] https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el/tree/master/examples https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el/tree/master...