Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by masolino » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 2:42 PM UTC

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by VLM » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 2:57 PM UTC

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.)

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by wtbob » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

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!

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by agumonkey » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

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!

So you can ask question about emacs on emacs.stackexchange while using stackexchange for emacs in emacs.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by tuhdo » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 5:15 PM UTC

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!

Emacs certainly is not just a text editor. Emacs is just a big REPL, a REPL with a powerful text editor instead of minimal command line interface. Right on the homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/, it is written that:

"GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor—and more. At its core is an interpreter for Emacs Lisp, a dialect of the Lisp programming language with extensions to support text editing."

Text editing is a subset of Emacs and Emacs Lisp, not the other way around.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by psp » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 5:22 PM UTC

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.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by tuhdo » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 5:29 PM UTC

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.

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 than Vim in the 90s.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by alexk » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 5:34 PM UTC

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.

Probably you have never seen a good emacs setup, that turns it into powerful customized IDE with great usability. Emacs is like minecraft for editors, you never stop building on it.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by barrkel » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 5:53 PM UTC

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. Personally, I'm fond of joe for this purpose - more functionality than mg while far smaller an install than emacs.

Re: Stack Exchange for Emacs

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Post by thrw1q » Sun, Dec 14, 2014, 6:15 PM UTC

tuhdo wrote: post #7

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.

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)