From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:47:05 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87r4eggthi.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> References: <87y58pplcp.fsf@VLAN-3434.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375185015 19787 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2013 11:50:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:50:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 30 13:50:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V48RV-0001Qq-It for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:50:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33224 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V48RV-0008N9-9b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jul 2013 07:50:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SWN/nubmpQxYKwY7hPy4YA.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:6jR12s/Jandg8BL4Kbk17LkhDuo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:200276 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92543 Archived-At: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) writes: > Perhaps this is where Emacs is at it's best. If I were writing > in one language, on one project for several months at a time, > I'd use eclipse. But I use many languages, with custom tools, > for specific purposes. At the bleeding, chaotic edge, it's Emacs > every time. Well, that is one of the advantages with Emacs, that all you typing goes there, be it mail, writing, programming, whatever. To have one editor for each PL is a bad idea, generally speaking, but also in almost all specific cases that I can think of. It doesn't matter how good those editors get at one thing, you will always find yourself lacking one feature from editor A in B, or strike a "B's shortcut" in A, and wonder why it didn't work. The only thing that could make it better would be if you never, ever do anything but one PL. But that programmer I've yet to meet. And I wouldn't want to be him, either. -- Emanuel Berg - programmer (hire me! CV below) computer projects: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 internet activity: http://home.student.uu.se/embe8573