From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)?
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 15:26:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k85r3da.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y25hn3rh.fsf@dick
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>>> "d" == dick <dick.r.chiang@gmail.com> writes:
EZ> Why not use the Matlab facilities, which AFAIK are significantly more
EZ> powerful and flexible than anything Emacs can reasonably provide?
> This question is fatuous given the deep knowledge of its author regarding
> emacs and its computing niche.
In fact I feel increasily strange of defending the use of GNU emacs on
the *emacs dev* list
> Emacs knows it cannot hold a candle to specialized editors like Matlab and
> Rstudio on features and out-of-the-box accessbility.
Well I beg to differ, although part of the statement is true, GNU emacs
has the huge advantage of being extenable, I often find myself in a
situation what while checking matlab files, I need to edit them and the
way is to write a simple lisp function, job done. That is hardly
possible in say matlab internal editor.
> Its selling point has always been UNIX-y interop (cutting and pasting
> say to a LaTeX doc) for command line people.
Again for me it is its universal swiss knife feature and its
extenability, but taste can differ, obviously.
> I used matlab-mode right until spring 2015 when Mathworks reformatted their
> prompt codes, thereby crippling debug mode.
Well it is back, have you a look yourself. And if you are not satisfied,
to quote RMS[1], «it will be faster if *you* help»
Footnotes:
[1] improvising a bit, not sure about its exact wording.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-21 14:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-20 17:53 could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)? Uwe Brauer
2021-11-20 22:42 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-11-21 0:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-21 8:08 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 8:17 ` Po Lu
2021-11-21 8:25 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 9:23 ` Po Lu
2021-11-21 9:34 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 9:55 ` Po Lu
2021-11-21 10:04 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 11:40 ` dick
2021-11-21 20:16 ` Andy Moreton
2021-11-21 10:58 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-11-21 12:16 ` dick
2021-11-21 14:17 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 16:15 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-11-21 16:25 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 16:39 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2021-11-21 17:13 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-21 16:31 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 17:32 ` dick
2021-11-22 13:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-23 6:13 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-21 8:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 8:32 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 8:51 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 9:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-21 9:29 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-21 11:32 ` dick
2021-11-21 14:26 ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2021-11-22 2:30 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-22 7:56 ` Uwe Brauer
2021-11-22 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-14 11:51 ` Jean Louis
2022-02-14 11:49 ` Jean Louis
2022-02-16 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
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