Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-30 Thread Casey Dahlin
On 11/28/2009 10:23 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Debayan Banerjee wrote: Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user bases, chosing emacs over vim for the distribution shows Fedora packagers' personal preference too. I guess both vim and emacs

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-30 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:26 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: On 11/28/2009 10:23 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Debayan Banerjee wrote: Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user bases, chosing emacs over vim for the distribution shows Fedora

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-30 Thread Casey Dahlin
On 11/30/2009 11:49 AM, Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 11:26 -0500, Casey Dahlin wrote: On 11/28/2009 10:23 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Debayan Banerjee wrote: Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user bases, chosing emacs over vim

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-30 Thread Muayyad AlSadi
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Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/01/2009 02:59 AM, Muayyad AlSadi wrote: I consider real men to be a gender-neutral complement. I know women who gladly receive it and exchange it amongst themselves. Since we're offering Casey money to do things¹ today: I will send you a check for $5 if you admit that real men is _in

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 23:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: I'm an emacs user who's nearly completely useless in vi. But, really... it just doesn't matter if emacs isn't installed by default. If you want it, you know how to get it.

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-30 Thread Ben Boeckel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 23:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: I'm an emacs user who's nearly completely useless in vi. But, really... it just doesn't matter if emacs

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-29 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
2009/11/29 Gregory Hosler ghos...@redhat.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/28/2009 02:32 AM, Debayan Banerjee wrote: 2009/11/28 Rahul Sundaram Why? It's just shows your personal preference for a editor. Emacs is certainly not needed for software

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-29 Thread Alexander Kurtakov
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/28/2009 02:32 AM, Debayan Banerjee wrote: 2009/11/28 Rahul Sundaram Why? It's just shows your personal preference for a editor. Emacs is certainly not needed for software development. Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-29 Thread Jeff Spaleta
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: Both vim and Emacs are obsolescent and hard to use. Kate FTW! Hmm, at this point I would have thought nano would be the editor with one of the lowest learning curve in those very pleasant moments when an inexperienced

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-28 Thread Guido Grazioli
2009/11/28 Iain Arnell iarn...@gmail.com: On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com said: I wish vi had some tutorial the way emacs does, so one don't get lost in it. In vim, hit F1. It's :help -- Guido

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-28 Thread Yaakov Nemoy
2009/11/28 Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: I'm an emacs user who's nearly completely useless in vi.  But, really... it just doesn't matter if emacs isn't installed by default.  If you want it, you know how to get it.  And let's be

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-28 Thread Chitlesh GOORAH
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Debayan Banerjee wrote: Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user bases, chosing emacs over vim for the distribution shows Fedora packagers' personal preference too. I guess both vim and emacs should be

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-28 Thread Kevin Kofler
Debayan Banerjee wrote: Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user bases, chosing emacs over vim for the distribution shows Fedora packagers' personal preference too. I guess both vim and emacs should be available. Both vim and Emacs are

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-28 Thread Sir Gallantmon
I would argue otherwise, considering the flexibility of both vim and Emacs. Personally, I like Emacs, and I have a hard time dealing with vi and its derivatives. But, this really isn't the place to start YET ANOTHER Emacs vs. vi[m] vs. {INSERT YOUR PREFERRED EDITOR} flamewar. Argue that on IRC,

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-28 Thread Gregory Hosler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 11/28/2009 02:32 AM, Debayan Banerjee wrote: 2009/11/28 Rahul Sundaram Why? It's just shows your personal preference for a editor. Emacs is certainly not needed for software development. Well one does need an editor for

Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
I just did a new install on a spare laptop. I chose the Software Development option. Emacs did not get installed. Also, although neither mysql-devel, nor postgresql-devel, nor even libtool-ltdl-devel got installed, I ended up with a huge number of -devel packages, many of whom, from my

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:12 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I just did a new install on a spare laptop. I chose the Software Development option. Emacs did not get installed. Also, although neither mysql-devel, nor postgresql-devel, nor even libtool-ltdl-devel got installed, I ended up with a huge

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Debayan Banerjee
2009/11/28 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: Why? It's just shows your personal preference for a editor. Emacs is certainly not needed for software development. Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user bases, chosing emacs over vim

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Rahul Sundaram writes: On 11/28/2009 02:12 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote: I just did a new install on a spare laptop. I chose the Software Development option. Emacs did not get installed. Also, although neither mysql-devel, nor postgresql-devel, nor even libtool-ltdl-devel got installed, I ended

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Debayan Banerjee writes: 2009/11/28 Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.org: Why? It's just shows your personal preference for a editor. Emacs is certainly not needed for software development. Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/28/2009 02:32 AM, Debayan Banerjee wrote: 2009/11/28 Rahul Sundaram Why? It's just shows your personal preference for a editor. Emacs is certainly not needed for software development. Well one does need an editor for development. Assuming vim and emacs have roughly equal user

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 16:06 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Let's say I want to do software development. I make an appropriate selection when intalling Fedora 12. What editor am I expected to use? The development group in comps does not list any editor by default. Those come from the Editors

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Braden McDaniel
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 14:48 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 16:06 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Let's say I want to do software development. I make an appropriate selection when intalling Fedora 12. What editor am I expected to use? The development group in comps

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Sir Gallantmon
I can't seem to invoke emacs even when I have it installed. Every time I do, it says the command isn't found. I had to go and find it and add a symlink to the $HOME/bin folder so that it would work... I know that shouldn't be happening... On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Braden McDaniel

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Orcan Ogetbil
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: I'm an emacs user who's nearly completely useless in vi.  But, really... it just doesn't matter if emacs isn't installed by default.  If you want it, you know how to get it.  And let's be frank: emacs is not something that a user who is

Re: Fedora 12: Emacs is not for software development

2009-11-27 Thread Iain Arnell
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net wrote: Once upon a time, Orcan Ogetbil oget.fed...@gmail.com said: I wish vi had some tutorial the way emacs does, so one don't get lost in it. In vim, hit F1. Gives me GNOME Terminal Manual :( But you can always run vimtutor