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Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by adlpz »

psp wrote: post #6

I never fully "got" emacs even though it was the popular editor during university times and I occasionally use it for quick server admin stuff. Today I feel it has missed its boat with good looking and user friendly stuff available like Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse and even cloud IDEs. I cant help but to laugh quietly to addons like this.

There's nothing to "get" really. If you feel that Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse, etc. are sufficient for your workflow, and wholly capture your needs, then you don't need emacs (or any other editor for that matter).

It just happens that there are people out there, like me, that want more out of their software and really enjoy tweaking and improving our editor. For us, there's emacs :).

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by pmoriarty »

thrw1q wrote: post #10
tuhdo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can Sublime Text/Atom do all of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8639804 ? I want to jump to any file at any time regardless of where I am in the project instantly, can Sublime do it? And even if a project has 30-40k files, it must be fast and make me jump instantly. See the demos in this guide for details: http://tuhdo.github.io/helm-projectile.html Atom has a limit of 2MB text file which is worse tha…

Those videos on the Idris mode are also very impressive: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsON_8vogp4nCQFTnfu43kA (Other languages also have nice modes for context-aware completion (and more), like Haskell's ghc-mod and Rust's racer, which is incomplete but is already very nice)

Or take a look at the videos at Emacs Rocks.[1]

[1] - http://emacsrocks.com/

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by latiera »

psp wrote: post #6

I never fully "got" emacs even though it was the popular editor during university times and I occasionally use it for quick server admin stuff. Today I feel it has missed its boat with good looking and user friendly stuff available like Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse and even cloud IDEs. I cant help but to laugh quietly to addons like this.

You are a fool.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by unknownian »

psp wrote: post #6

I never fully "got" emacs even though it was the popular editor during university times and I occasionally use it for quick server admin stuff. Today I feel it has missed its boat with good looking and user friendly stuff available like Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse and even cloud IDEs. I cant help but to laugh quietly to addons like this.

What's the point in being so condescending?

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by hollerith »

barrkel wrote: post #9
psp wrote: post #6

I never fully "got" emacs even though it was the popular editor during university times and I occasionally use it for quick server admin stuff. Today I feel it has missed its boat with good looking and user friendly stuff available like Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse and even cloud IDEs. I cant help but to laugh quietly to addons like this.

Emacs can be made prettier, but that's not its forte - power and extensibility are. It's a better text editor, IMO, than any of the three you mention. However, it's not particularly suited to quick server admin stuff. If you're using emacs as its intended, you'll have a lot of packages to load on startup, making it sluggish for ad-hoc editing with sudo (precluduing use of emacsclient). Emacs -q or mg would be faster.…

>ad-hoc editing with sudo (precluding use of emacsclient)

It looks to me like you're probably unaware that an Emacs not running as root can edit files owned by root. The way it goes about it (in a word, TRAMP) is a little complicated under the hood, but (at least for files residing on the same machine as the Emacs process) reliable.

Specifically, both C-x C-f /sudo::/etc/hosts and `emacsclient /sudo::/etc/hosts` work.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by tmalsburg2 »

latiera wrote: post #13
psp wrote: post #6

I never fully "got" emacs even though it was the popular editor during university times and I occasionally use it for quick server admin stuff. Today I feel it has missed its boat with good looking and user friendly stuff available like Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse and even cloud IDEs. I cant help but to laugh quietly to addons like this.

You are a fool.

You shouldn't blame him. The truth is that Emacs does a great job at hiding its potential from users. Editors like Atom are ultimately much less powerful but they make it easy to discover and use the features that they provide. When I started using Emacs (after a decade of Vim), it took me two years to make myself fully feel at home in Emacs. Part of the reason was that you can't really use Emacs to its fullest without learning a good deal of Elisp. This is the part were other editors do much better.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by abroncs »

psp wrote: post #6

I never fully "got" emacs even though it was the popular editor during university times and I occasionally use it for quick server admin stuff. Today I feel it has missed its boat with good looking and user friendly stuff available like Sublime Text, Atom, Eclipse and even cloud IDEs. I cant help but to laugh quietly to addons like this.

Good. You seem to favor form over functionality, nothing wrong with that. Emacs is the complete opposite of that.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by gaalze »

VLM wrote: post #2

Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it. (just kidding. I don't like SE but I'm sure this is a great tool for people who do like SE.)

Please don't have an opinion when posting on StackExchange. Democracy and committees are what make America great and why we chose XML over S-Expressions.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by Chris911 »

wtbob wrote: post #3

This is Yet Another Example of the amazing utility of being able to easily and stably extend one's environment. emacs is just a text editor, but this project is changing it into a Stack Exchange client. That's useful!

I build something similar for Atom a few months ago[1] and while some people liked the idea a lot of comments were negative and turned around that fact that programming is not about copy/pasting and plagiarism. Now a similar project is built but for emacs and comments about the concept of having a client inside an editor is interesting and powerful.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7931667

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