From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Slickedit features in Emacs? Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:34:26 GMT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87e77d96.0305211059.3e15858a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053546996 2344 80.91.224.249 (21 May 2003 19:56:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 19:56:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 21 21:56:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19IZgW-0000Ty-00 for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 21:55:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19IZNB-0002o8-GC for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 May 2003 15:35:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!c03.atl99!rip!news.webusenet.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr28.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1KP+QkPcDoY7rpupqCugTk8jOOc= Original-Lines: 49 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.62.199.3 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr28.news.prodigy.com 1053545665 ST000 216.62.199.3 (Wed, 21 May 2003 14:34:25 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 14:34:25 CDT X-UserInfo1: Q[R_PJONEJW[STT^BJJNOFXBBZ\LPCXLLBWLOOAFQATJUZ]CDVW[AKK[J\]^HVKHG^EWZHBLO^[\NH_AZFWGN^\DHNVMX_DHHX[FSQKBOTS@@BP^]C@RHS_AGDDC[AJM_T[GZNRNZAY]GNCPBDYKOLK^_CZFWPGHZIXW@C[AFKBBQS@E@DAZ]VDFUNTQQ]FN Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113474 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9973 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9973 >>>>> "Henrik" == Henrik Jönsson writes: Henrik> I just was on a demo for Visual SlickEdit here at my Henrik> company. I am impressed. My initial question was of Henrik> course if the functions in Slickedit exists in emacs. Some Henrik> of them exists I know. Henrik> * Autocompletion of expressions. When the user write "if " Henrik> it expands automatically into a full if template. Can this Henrik> be done with skeletons? Henrik> * "Intellisense". I know that semantic can do something Henrik> like this, but does it work for everyday use? Has anyone Henrik> tried it? I don't use either of the above two things in emacs so I won't comment on them (but I'm fairly certain autocompletions - aliases in slickedit - are doable in emacs. Henrik> * Dynamic Tagging. Go to the function declaration etc. I Henrik> haven't used tags that much. I do use ctags. It's not dynamic like it is with slickedit however (although I'm sure someone smarter than me could find a hook to make it so). Henrik> I don't want to abandon emacs because I use it for Henrik> calendar, diary, notes, etc. But for programming Slickedit Henrik> is very interresting. I used Slickedit for about 2 and a half years. It has some nice features for programmers. The things I miss are intellisense and the dynamic tagging. The things I don't miss are the excruciatingly slow load times of large workspaces, the occasional crashes, buggy inconsistencies in tag file creation, the slick-c language, the performance price you paid for dynamic tagging on large workspaces, and of course the hefty price tag. Towards the end of my time with slickedit I was using WTL quite heavily and the intellisense didn't work well with it, so with the primary reason I was willing to dish out $$ gone, I decided to learn Emacs. I'm quite happy now with Emacs and couldn't see myself ever using any other editor. Your mileage may vary of course.