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> On 23 Aug 2023, at 12:19 pm, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I noticed that there is LSP support for Emacs. That's super important in the 
> modern world of language servers.
> 
> On 23/8/2023 9:32 am, Tomasz Rola wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
>>> I remember using ed. Via a 2400bps modem :-)
>> Aha. Ed and vi are still being praised by various people for their
>> ability to use such a narrow bandwith.
>> 
>>> I'm told the thing with emacs is that, if you like it, it can end up being
>>> almost your whole development environment, so you feel lost without it.
>> Sure, I agree. But this same thing can be told about any kind of tool
>> which does its jobs so well that one does not want to search for
>> anything better. Not perfect, just good enough. Part of this is
>> avoiding "avalanche" type of changes to the way a tool works. Changes
>> are introduced, allright, but usually they are acceptable to me. In
>> some cases, I had to include an ELisp snippet into my dot-emacs.
>> 
>> I suspect that I would be able to transplant old version of some code
>> I rely upon into newer emacs, but this might prove to be troublesome.
>> 
>> BTW, emacs is not very good with big files. I have now one such ~30
>> megabyte text file, with Unicode and some stuff describing a structure
>> of it - it contains my notes, calendar things, but in essence it is
>> just a magnafied bookmarks file. It loads quite fast, but not
>> blazingly fast - about five seconds.
>> 
>> Emacs has a hex viewer too. I use it rarely, because I prefer
>>  "hexdump -C <file | less"
>> 
>> BTW2, emacs is the only editor I know about that has built in
>> psychiatric help. And no, this is not one of those Lady Gaga
>> jokes. Try "M-x doctor".
>> 
>>> I ended up writing my own editor twice (once for TSO and 3278, again for
>>> Windoze). Both can run without line numbers and use F-keys to get things
>>> done, mostly matching the keys I used with the ISPF editor to insert,
>>> delete, split and join lines etc.
>> U-hum. I never felt such inclination (except once when I was very very
>> young). Learning the tool and using it well enough, seems like
>> attanaible goal for me :-).
>> 

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