Re: 10 problems with Elisp, part 10

["Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>]

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Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> There's nothing more natural than an editor analyzing text
>> in a buffer. Why it frustrates you is beyond me.
>
> doing the old thing we should move up one level of abstraction
> and be there instead, and focus not on "getting the job done"
> but instead getting it done in a way that is much better than
> what we - to a large extent - have been doing so far.

After having seen how I could write interactive indentation highlighting
in wisp-mode in a few hours of hacking and a few dozen lines of code,¹ I
disagree with the implication here that the current way is a bad way to
get things done.

If you want to see how Emacs actually outshines other environments, you
need to look no further than the talk Lisp for Everyone — starting at
24:00 if you want the context, or directly into the Emacs at 26:45:
https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lispforeveryone/

¹ https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/wisp/browse/wisp-mode.el?rev=b9f2fb2b4333#L414

Best wishes,
Arne
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