![]() ![]() At first I felt it was like magic - so much of the sourceĬode got generated by various wizards and I felt productive. Was drawn to the allure of C and C++ combined with Microsoft’s Visual My journey to computing started in the nineties when I wasĭoing some basic programming with Pascal in the Turbo PascalĮnvironment, notorious for its horrible editing features. Whistles of an IDE, but it has the one thing that matters (should matter?) the You to move your hands often away from the home row (such a waste) and haveĪ programmer’s editor might not have all the fancy bells and A very trivial example is the fact that most IDEsĭon’t even have keybindings optimized for touch typing - they require Used have extremely poor text editing capabilities compared to the likes Have totally forgot about the most crucial part of softwareĭevelopment - it’s mostly about editing text. Nice visual debuggers, semantic analysis of the source code, etc) they Users/programmers and are mostly used by enthusiasts and old schoolįor all the good things IDEs have brought us (smart auto-completion, Seem to have fallen out of grace with the mainstream With so many integrated developmentĮnvironments (IDEs) flying around traditional text editors like Emacs and Vim The simple fact is that the popularity of programmer’s text editors is But first… A Text Editor in 2011 - Are You Mental or Something? While I wouldn’t dare to claim that Emacs is better than all the IDEsĪnd competing editors, I’ll share here the things that I think are Use Emacs? What makes it better than Eclipse/IntelliJ/vim/etc?”. Often get asked the same question - “Why should I Using (and loving) it for many years now. I’m an Emacs user and I’m proud of the fact. – Neal Stephenson, In the Beginning … was the Command Line It is not just bigger andīrighter it simply makes everything else vanish. Outshines all other editing software in approximately the same way Paid to worry about how your words are formatted and printed – Emacs If you are a professional writer – i.e., if someone else is getting Replace Emacs Lisp with Scheme or Common Lisp.Other Prominent Tools Use Emacs’s keybindings.It’s Easy to Share an Editing Session Between GUI and Terminal.Emacs Integrates Well with Lots of External Tools.A Text Editor in 2011 - Are You Mental or Something?. ![]()
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