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It's well worth freeze framing and reading the text in the list of all the different programming languages that Emacs supports.
I'd love to use emacs as my primary editor. But it's too slow compared to sublime.
Am I the only one who thinks there should be at least one actual screenshot of emacs on a site titled "emacs is sexy"?
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What package are you using for your Emacs back end for completion? I've tried several and never really found them stable or even working in some cases. I write a couple thousand lines of C++ every week in emacs and I've actually become very productive without auto completion, so perhaps I'm not missing it anymore at all.
I code in C so can't speak for C++, but I imagine it works well for that too: irony-mode as a backend and company-mode as frontend. It pretty much gives the Xcode auto-complete experience, and I think it works great!
My one complaint is that clang's MSVC mode is imperfect, and sometimes suggests some strange things (or produces some false negative/positive in syntax checking). But they've been getting much better lately and it's never caused me much pain.
e: also, second what a sibling said - combo this with flycheck-mode and you have yourself a full-blown C++ IDE in emacs ;)
I've been using Emacs for over 15 years now and I do almost all my work in it. The two things that I still haven't found good solutions for in emacs are available out of the box in almost every editor today: 1. Autocomplete of methods, classes, variables etc 2. Auto import statement organisation Yes I am aware of JDEE for #2 and I am aware of emacswiki/autocomplete but none of those solutions are as smooth, well inte…
Obligatory https://www.vim.sexy/
Yeah right. Elisp was dynamic-scoping-only until version 24.1. That means elisp code written before that (i.e., 99.999% of emacs code that's not in C) as well as most of the code written after that, has essentially the feel of hacky cruft which will drown a modern programmer into an abyss of cognitive pain and headache when (s)he attempts to understand, modify, or debug it. (not unlike GOTO ridden spaghetti) How many…
Yeah right. Elisp was dynamic-scoping-only until version 24.1. That means elisp code written before that (i.e., 99.999% of emacs code that's not in C) as well as most of the code written after that, has essentially the feel of hacky cruft which will drown a modern programmer into an abyss of cognitive pain and headache when (s)he attempts to understand, modify, or debug it. (not unlike GOTO ridden spaghetti) How many…
It had ultra-dynamic lazy scoping: It would defer evaluating the function parameters until they were actually needed by the callee (((or a function it called))), at which time it would evaluate the parameters in the CALLEE's scope.
James Gosling honestly copped to how terrible a language MockLisp was in the 1981 Unix Emacs release notes:
https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_cmuGosling_4195808/Gosl...
12.2. MLisp - Mock Lisp
Unix Emacs contains an interpreter for a language
that in many respects resembles Lisp. The primary
(some would say only) resemblance between Mock Lisp
and any real Lisp is the general syntax of a program,
which many feel is Lisp's weakest point. The
differences include such things as the lack of a
cons function and a rather peculiar method of
passing parameters.
Emacs itself isn't sexy; the sole reason I use emacs is the power and extensibility offered by emacs lisp. If vim used elisp instead of shudders vimscript, I would use it in a heartbeat.
Regarding extensibility, would it even be possible to embed Guile or ECL (or Lua or John Walker's ATLAST) into an existing editor? Perhaps not Vim, but maybe classic vi or nvi?
I have used both, from Finseth's 'FINE'[1], to MicroEmacs (ue) to Gosling emacs. But I switched over to vi when I started using PC keyboards all the time because of that damn caps lock key. For a while I would keymap it back to control and spent extra for a keyboard that actually had a control key there, but eventually I gave up not being able to walk up to a vanilla / foreign install and effectively generate a text file from within an editor.
[1] Fine Is Not EMACS