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Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by noosphr »

siva7 wrote: post #213
throwaway4496 wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think VIM is a niche? neovim + vim is used by over 38% of developers according StackExchange survey. That is more than 1 out of 3 developer, closer to 2 out of 5. I am not sure what is going on with here recently, maybe I have overgrown the place, or maybe everyday a little by little this place is getting filled with people who shouldn't be talking about CS.

I believe rather my own eyes over a long career than these surveys. It's certainly well below 10% if you don't count being just used for the lack of any alternative (aka sshing)

If only more people knew about tramp-mode.

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by komali2 »

oblio wrote: post #160
megaloblasto wrote: post #111

This is awesome. I love emacs and I love integrating AI into my coding work flow. What I really want is to be able to run something like this locally for, say, less than $2000 in computer hardware. Is this feasible now or any time soon. Anyone out there using agents with local models for coding?

1. MacMini. or: 2. https://frame.work/es/en/desktop 3. https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/developer/dgx-spark/ => https://marketplace.nvidia.com/en-us/reservations/ (cheapest is 3k)

At Computex here they had a demo running some local model on a cluster of 4 framework desktops. It certainly generated text! Just about one character of it a second.

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by setopt »

xmhsez wrote: post #217
throwaway4496 wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You think VIM is a niche? neovim + vim is used by over 38% of developers according StackExchange survey. That is more than 1 out of 3 developer, closer to 2 out of 5. I am not sure what is going on with here recently, maybe I have overgrown the place, or maybe everyday a little by little this place is getting filled with people who shouldn't be talking about CS.

I've been using vim for 10+ years. The only commands I know are for saving, quitting, enabling line numbers and syntax. I'm sure 90% of the people in your statistics are like me.

If you create a vimrc, even an empty one, I believe you don’t have to enable syntax highlighting manually.

(The existence of a Vim config file disables Vi compatibility mode.)

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by azkae »

iLemming wrote: post #125
riskassessment wrote: post #89

Gptel has been working great for me. I'd be interested in checking this out but I only have so much time to set up and test new tools. What features would make it worthwhile to switch from gptel?

You don't "switch" from gptel as this package solves a problem of a different dimension. Gptel is still great for tons of other things, even though it's not suitable for "project context-wise" LLM workflows.

I am using macher for small edits on a codebase with gptel: https://github.com/kmontag/macher

The package define a list of tools that gptel can use to inspect and edit a project. The tools are packaged as a preset so all you have to do is add "@macher" to your prompt to include the tools & update the system directive.

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by epcoa »

throwaway4496 wrote: post #220
blahgeek wrote: post #208

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As someone who have only used Emacs and Vim in the past 10 years, I wish you are right. But according to my observation, 90% of those 38% of developers only use Vim in when they are sshing to the server to update few config files or make simple edits to the scripts. When they do proper programming (like hundreds lines of coding in a project), they switch to other IDEs like VSCode. So yes I personally still consider V…

Yeah, even if that is true, what part of a tool used by close to 40% of developers is niche? niche /niːʃ,nɪtʃ/ (adjective) denoting products, services, or interests that appeal to a small, specialized section of the population.

While not going to argue that vim is niche, I don’t think it is. StackExchange surveys are likely highly unrepresentative and lack external validity. I do not believe 40% of developers use vim based on such an unvalidated and likely biased study.

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by epcoa »

Arisaka1 wrote: post #223
siva7 wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe rather my own eyes over a long career than these surveys. It's certainly well below 10% if you don't count being just used for the lack of any alternative (aka sshing)

Placing greater weight in our own anecdotes over randomized trials and researches is what gave us some of the worst experiences in recent years.

StackExchange surveys are not “randomized trials” and only qualifies as the lowest quality research.

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by BeetleB »

throwaway4496 wrote: post #231
davrosthedalek wrote: post #225

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It's niche /for development work/. Being used by a developer doesn't make it used for development. Or the most used developing tool would be the toilet.

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> Yeah, because I use vim to turn on the shower.

You say that as if it's ridiculous. Isn't there an M-x shower-on command somewhere in Emacs?

Re: Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs

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Post by qwertywert_ »

throwaway4496 wrote: post #195
blahgeek wrote: post #9

Like LSP and tree-sitter, I think AI coding tools like Claude Code or Aider are very good news for niche editors like Emacs or Vim. Instead of struggling about implementing advanced IDE-like features, they can integrate with these tools relatively easily, and focus on other editing related features that set them apart. In fact, IMO it makes these editors more competitive because they are highly customizable and easie…

You think VIM is a niche? neovim + vim is used by over 38% of developers according StackExchange survey. That is more than 1 out of 3 developer, closer to 2 out of 5. I am not sure what is going on with here recently, maybe I have overgrown the place, or maybe everyday a little by little this place is getting filled with people who shouldn't be talking about CS.

Most "regular" developers don't actively engage with StackExchange.. I would not believe that statistic at all. And I'm a 7+ years vim user.
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