Christian Seberino wrote: > It is weird that Linux world has not embraced an IDE and still > uses Emacs and Vim.
I don't think it is weird at all. I think it is weird that the rest of the world has embraced IDE's. One of the greatest lessons learned from Unix is that you use a number of small tools all communicating via standard means (pipes, sockets, etc) to accomplish things in a flexible and powerful way instead of building one giant tool to do everything. Some might claim emacs violates this principle but I don't really think so. emacs is an extensible text editor with some basic windowing capabilities etc. but that's all it can do unless you want to load up thousands of lines of elisp code but even that is done in a way in keeping with the unix philosophy IMHO. elisp plugins to extend the functionality have turned out to be a great way to do things even though some people have gone overboard and done silly things like email programs and towers of hanoi and eliza etc. but each of these things are really just their own separate programs talking to the emacs program for output display via standard interfaces through the elisp interpreter. How long have emacs and vim been around? Why do you think they have been around that long? Because they are good, that's why. Many other IDE's have come and gone but I don't know anyone still using the same proprietary IDE they used 10 years ago. Since Eclipse is FOSS it might have longer legs. > Is it so cool I should give up on Emacs? Just out of curiosity, how familiar are you with emacs? I have just recently started using emacs for my coding tasks (when I can break the habit of automatically typing vi to start an editor, that is) and I am still very much a newbie. I have had some emacs books on my bookshelf for ages but only recently started to dive into them but with so much other stuff on my plate it has been slow going. I've been a vi stalwart for years and always been interested in emacs but just never got around to learning it. But I really like the idea of an extensible editor. Do you remap your caps-lock key? It seems to be a requirement to using emacs without going insane. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com 1-877-MY-COPILOT -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
