Hi Marcell, Personally, I think its insane.
Using one editor for everything gives you a lowest common denominator editor rather that a best of breed for the language. Things like syntax checking,code completion, and highlighting require that the editor be essentially a form of a compiler in order to understand the context of the language and the code. I am no Emacs user, but I have never heard of Emacs doing that kind of thing. In fact from what I recollect, Emacs is around since before there were graphical editors and so I would guess (but don't know) that these kinds of things are, if even possible, clunky to the point of unpleasantness. I am sure that because Emacs is, as I understand it, also a programming language, that there are things that you can do in Emacs that you cant do in, for example the Eclipse Java editor. But for my money the Eclipse Java editor is the best editor ever created for any language. The Eclipse Java editor lives and breaths Java. I act, and it reacts, as if knowing what I wish to do or, more often than not, what I *should* wish to do. It is like a "painted-on glove". Its an extra "Java brain" that sits by my side, making little suggestions and just doing the right thing. That is what an editor should be. An intelligent partner, not a slave. It is, I believe, impossible (or so difficult that no one would consider it worth the effort) to create a generic editor that would be such an assistant, that will work seamlessly for every language. The people who preach the benefits of something like Emacs over a more customized editor either don't understand the benefits which I described, or more likely, they are in some other realm of programming where: a. they don't make errors so they don't need syntax checking b. they have all 100 megabytes of their environment APIs totally memorized so code completion is of little value, c. they consider syntax highlighting for girlie men (or women). I am not such a programmer. Regards, Hank P.S. there are no actioscript editors as good as the Java Eclipse editor, but the Flex editor is trying, and I suspect given the resources behind it will get there. Many people love FDT for similar reasons. I hate it because I believe the company and the people behind it are incredibly obnoxious and provide horrible support for a (I think) 200 euro product. On 12/30/06, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks, I've been reading "The Pragmatic Programmers - From Jorneyman To Master". Something that called my attention was that is recommends you to stick with a editor and use it for everything. Emacs seems to be a very cool piece of software and allows you to do every kind of neat tricks really fast once you learn how to use it. But I've been thinking - most programmers use different IDE's for each language. The book gives the idea of using a good editor for everything (particulary recommending emacs). What do you guys think about this? Have you ever used emacs for ActionScript programming? Cheers, Marcelo. _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
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