Re: Emacs's popularity

["B Smith-Mannschott" <bsmith.occs@gmail.com>]

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> I suspect that at some point, another editor, inspired by emacs, will
> possibly replace emacs. Maybe it will use guile, common lisp or some
> other extensible scripting language with more power than elisp. maybe it
> will be designed form the ground up with support for all those things
> now considered important that were not even on the horizon when emacs
> was first being designed. This isn't a problem and to some extent is
> just natural evolution. However, I can't see this happening for a long
> time - it would take a lot of work to create a new editor from scratch
> that had the power of emacs, but its not something to be feared. Rather,
> its something to be embraced!
>

I sometimes think Eclipse is that editor. Of course it misses one of Emacs'
strengths in that extending it is a rather heavy-weight process. This
distinguishes it from systems like Emacs, SmallTalk, Oberon, which blur the
line between development tool and platform far more than Eclipse manages to.



> Until then, I'll continue to use emacs as the only editor I use and I
> use it at least 10 hours Mon-Fri and a good 6+ hours sat and sun. If a
> better alternative comes along, I'll adopt it. Until then....
>

Here too, along with Eclipse (with Emacs keybindings).


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// Ben Smith-Mannschott

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