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Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by adultSwim » Thu, May 11, 2017, 4:38 PM UTC

throw_throw wrote: post #79

rjkaplan wrote: post #70

The page's domain and title are disappointing to me. Using sexualized language can create an environment that is unduly hostile to women, even if this is not intended. Many of the biases against women that such language provokes are totally unconscious, so even if the intent is not harmful, it can be bad regardless. More info here: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment Wording in this comment borr…

Are you implying only females can be sexy?

I believe he's implying that women have been and continue to be sexualized in a way and to an extent that men are not.

I'm fine with this particular example but I wholeheartedly agree with the comment. However me being fine with it isn't enough - everyone already takes me seriously. I haven't always seen that same courtesy extended to women engineers.

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by adultSwim » Thu, May 11, 2017, 4:42 PM UTC

I've spent years using emacs. It continues to be a tool worth using.

My favorite editors are still nano and notepad.exe

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by Delmania » Thu, May 11, 2017, 5:50 PM UTC

type0 wrote: post #87

Delmania wrote: post #30

In my experience, Emacs is excellent if you take the time to set it up to do as much as possible. Manage work with OrgMode, read email with any number of packages, edit code in one of the supported languages, send and receive messages. The less you have to leave the application, the more productive you are. There are 2 issues with this, the first is the sheer number of packages you need to install. Packages are a mix…

> Packages are a mixed blessing because they add so much, but if the person who wrote it stops working on it, you now need to take over or find something else. I know Spacemacs brings in a huge bunch, do they have any way to mitigate that?

Critical mass, there's enough people using it that if someone leaves, another person will step up.

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by wonks » Thu, May 11, 2017, 6:32 PM UTC

harrygeez wrote: post #49

wonks wrote: post #21

Personally, I still really like Sublime. The GUI makes it very easy to pick up.

Are you're really comparing a text-editor to a... operating system? Emacs is a whole different beast

You're just inviting the "decent text editor" joke, aren't you? ;-) But yes, if all you want is text editing I'm not sure what's better than Sublime. I've hard good things about VS Code lately, though.

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by everybodyknows » Thu, May 11, 2017, 9:26 PM UTC

Editing in the Multi-Occur buffer can be just about ideal for coordinating name changes across multiple files. Unfortunately, it's keystroke-inefficient out of the box. The elisp fixes are here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2641211/emacs-interactive...

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by qdot76367 » Thu, May 11, 2017, 11:36 PM UTC

DonHopkins wrote: post #51

Kyle Machulis sure loves Emacs. He wrote "Deldo - The Sex Toy and Teledildonics Mode for Emacs": https://www.metafetish.com/2010/08/02/deldo-sex-toy-control-... It's well worth freeze framing and reading the text in the list of all the different programming languages that Emacs supports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1sXuHnf_lo

Hah, thanks! :D

Re: Emacs is sexy

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Post by confounded » Fri, May 19, 2017, 11:47 PM UTC

noobhacker wrote: post #77

gtycomb wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have not really used Rstudio, so I can't compare. I tried RStudio first, but then I was up and running with ESS effortlessly and have looked no further. Its the integration of Emacs with other development enviroments that keeps my life simple :-)

Could you clarify what you mean by "integration with other development environments"? I assume you're in data science -- could you describe how Emacs solve your need? Also, am I correct in thinking that ESS company-mode autocomplete does not autocomplete data frame's variable names when using tidyverse's pipe?

Late response, but I moved to Emacs after being a very happy user of Rstudio for many many years.

Rstudio is a better editor for R. The problem is that it's a worse editor for everything else, and these days I write plenty of else, too. Being able to flip between different files, language shells, terminals, magit buffers, etc. effortlessly, makes putting up with worse autocomplete in R a pretty good deal for me. It does annoy me a little, but R is hardly a verbose language, and elisp is high-level enough that I have a shot at extending / changing the behavior if it really bothers me.