Re: Changes for emacs 28

[Göktuğ Kayaalp]

On 2020-09-10 14:20 +03, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> wrote:
> At that point their initial enthusiasm has all but disappeared and they
> glance over to their colleagues who use Rstudio or Atom (in 2017) or
> that proprietary editor Sublime.  Everything seems so easy and
> approachable and just as extensible.  They see their colleague use Git
> from within Rstudio and wonder if they’d ever get to that point if they
> will first have to configure Emacs to do all the basic things first.

IMO we should draw a line between attracting users into a detrimental
experience for them and making Emacs more approachable.  Rstudio is a
_great_ fundamental project, and if the rest of my life wasn’t inside
Emacs, I’d be using it these days as I’m studying R.  Org mode is better
than Rmarkdown in certain respects, but if it’s just ‘do statistics in a
nice environment’, I’d definitely recommend Rstudio over Emacs (or
anything else, for that matter).  There’s no way Emacs will ever be as
good at that particular task set, especially if that’s the only task set
one will need it for.

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