Jacob Meuser
Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:56:46 -0800
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:41:41PM -0800, Allen Brown wrote: > > I don't like emacs because it tries to format my code for me. I > > condsider that unsupportive, and actually kinda rude. > > Like all things, it is configurable. You can either set the > configuration so that it formats to your style, or you can > turn off formatting.
or I can not use programs that I dislike ... seriously, with the wide choice of editors out there, why would I spend time trying to figure out how to do that? > > UNIX _is_ a programming environment, made up of many simple tools, > > doing one thing and doing it well. that's why there is indent, > > ctags, lint, sed, etc, etc. knowing how to use those tools > > individually is far more useful than knowing how a particular > > program reimplements them. > I agree. But one of the things emacs can do is to run make > and parse the editor error messages, putting me onto the > correct line number in the appropriate file to fix each bug. > None of the tools you mention do this. true, but I don't find it troublesome to read the make output and go to the line in the file. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug