From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What IDE features do we need?
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:12:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zlrleftm.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080422115216.GA2609@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:52:16 +0000")
> My opinion is that things like how to mark regions are not _that_
> important in attracting new users. At least, not the sort of users that
> would be staying with Emacs anyway. I don't think it's that big a deal
> for newbies whether they use <shift>+arrows or C-<space> to create a
> region. As long as it works well, of course.
>
> What is important is _features_. About 3 years ago, I was using
> hi-lock-mode to highlight some anomalies in a log file (found by a
> regexp). My boss (an ex-programmer) saw it, asked me what I was doing,
> and within an hour had Emacs on his PC and was using hi-lock-mode to
> look at other log files.
>
> However, the lack of certain features is critical. Juri, what were the
> features of that IDE that made the "unskilled novice" so productive?
Y'know, all these "intellisense", code browsing and refactoring things.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-22 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-21 19:46 Please stop proposing changes in defaults! Richard Stallman
2008-04-21 21:32 ` Paul R
2008-04-22 4:20 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-21 21:40 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-22 3:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-22 4:20 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-22 8:48 ` Juri Linkov
2008-04-22 11:52 ` What IDE features do we need? [Was: Please stop proposing changes in defaults!] Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-22 12:22 ` Dan Kruchinin
2008-04-22 12:28 ` Dan Kruchinin
2008-04-22 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-22 21:13 ` Paul R
2008-04-22 13:28 ` What IDE features do we need? defaults!] Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-22 13:41 ` joakim
2008-04-22 17:07 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-22 14:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-22 15:44 ` What IDE features do we need? Alan Mackenzie
2008-04-22 15:40 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-22 17:12 ` joakim
2008-04-22 15:44 ` Eric Hanchrow
2008-04-22 16:27 ` Drew Adams
2008-04-22 21:12 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2008-04-23 15:58 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-23 20:29 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-04-24 3:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-24 12:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-24 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-24 17:21 ` Thomas Lord
2008-04-25 3:40 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-28 18:28 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-28 17:57 ` Mike Mattie
2008-04-28 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-24 19:55 ` Bruce Stephens
2008-04-24 5:15 ` Richard Stallman
2008-04-24 6:24 ` joakim
2008-04-24 19:42 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-04-24 6:35 ` Tassilo Horn
2008-04-24 9:58 ` klaus.berndl
2008-04-24 10:25 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-24 19:43 ` Richard M Stallman
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