From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Elisp really that slow? Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 11:17:24 -0400 Message-ID: <74aeb4a2-9e36-e21f-f72e-8ae766868d05@us.ibm.com> References: <20190502214006.4fdsinp7u5xuqvdv@Ergus> <20190503004416.xfuzzucflp6bxpuz@Ergus> <8736lm30lz.fsf@web.de> <864l61j04d.fsf@zoho.eu> <20190511073254.GB29829@tuxteam.de> <04187AB9-AD7D-492D-A890-BCB01848370C@icloud.com> <20190511075712.GD29829@tuxteam.de> <86a7fsfv1m.fsf@zoho.eu> <20190512075448.GA11650@tuxteam.de> <346107E9-590D-4A18-9152-ECFF36FC4EDC@icloud.com> <83r293bvok.fsf@gnu.org> <87ef53vihw.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="231359"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 17 17:17:55 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hRecM-000y53-Kz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 17:17:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50025 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRecL-0008Sm-Kg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 11:17:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRec2-0008Sb-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 11:17:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRec1-00007M-QX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 11:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46906 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hRec1-0008Pf-Es for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 11:17:33 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hReby-000xfj-8k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 May 2019 17:17:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ In-Reply-To: <87ef53vihw.fsf@telefonica.net> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120494 Archived-At: On 5/12/2019 10:45 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: > >> Most stuff Emacs routinely does is something the other editors could >> only dream about, so by and large you are comparing apples to peanuts. > > Examples? > > Emacs is amazing, but as far as productivity goes, at least as a > programmer's editor for popular languages, it is far behind current > contenders. I was hooked on emacs the first time I saw keyboard macros. Is there another editor that can spell check code? I appreciate that it's multi-OS and multi-language. I use emacs for bulk coding. However, I use a language and OS specific IDE for debugging.