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From: Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@SpAmBlOcK.fit-zones.com>
Subject: Re: Why do you use emacs?
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 18:13:43 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EC135E4.1030707@SpAmBlOcK.fit-zones.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9m1ui$18qo$1@foka1.acn.pl>

Artur Hefczyc wrote:
...
> The test version of this guide is here:
> http://wttools.sourceforge.net/emacs-stuff/emacsandjdee.html

I'd say the same thing as most other comments.
In addition, *free* means that Emacs provides the means, and I have the
right to configure/adapt Emacs to my needs.

For example, there was no market for an editor to highlight Y2K dates in
source code, so I adapted Emacs to do this.
I could not have afforded a consultant to do this, but Christian Egli, 
an experienced Elisp developer helped me get started, and we released 
our work to the community.
Only a tool written for programmers and by programmers can be this helpful.

The final reason that I use Emacs, is that (enough of) the community 
does not insult you, when you (politely) ask for help.

I appreciate your JDEE installer.
Perhaps you can co-ordinate your effort with (my) EMacro project, at
<url: http://emacro.sf.net/ >

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-13 18:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-11 17:41 Why do you use emacs? Artur Hefczyc
2003-05-11 17:48 ` Roodwriter
2003-05-11 21:11 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2003-05-12  3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-12 11:59 ` Phillip Lord
2003-05-12 14:55 ` Colin Marquardt
2003-05-12 20:07 ` Jason Dufair
2003-05-13 18:13 ` Bruce Ingalls [this message]
2003-05-13 18:48   ` A. L. Meyers
2003-05-14 21:53   ` Artur Hefczyc
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-12 12:32 why " Kevin Dziulko

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