Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?

[Elena]

On Dec 3, 5:44 am, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com>
wrote:
> And if you're editing text more than four hours a day, you should be
> programming emacs to ease and automatize your editing.

That's the issue: how do you know how to automatize your editing?  You
lack the knowledge and/or experience to do it.  That's why you should
rely on a work-flow designed by experienced users, which you can tweak
later.  Unless you enjoy reinventing the wheel, and possibly
reinventing it trapezoidal.

Thank goddess somebody invented modal editing.  It is the most
effective way to edit text I can think of, now that I know it, and I
don't know whether I could have invented such a thing even in forty
years.

> Of course, if you're editing text for ten years or more, you should be
> using emacs (and learning to better use it everyday) for ten years or
> more.

Not when Emacs lacks support for what I'm doing.  Currently I'm
forced[1] to use Visual Studio or Eclipse for *code* editing, and I
switch to Emacs only when I have to perform some heavy *text*
editing.  *Code* editing is a more specific task than *text* editing,
and an IDE is better equipped for the former task.  Disclosure: I'm
using a Vim-emulation plugin both on Visual Studio and Eclipse,
therefore I don't feel the pain of almost non-existing text-editing
features of both Visual Studio and Eclipse.

[1] "forced" means I have to do it, unless I want some colleagues of
mine to eat my lunch.  Of course I could develop my own half-assed IDE
on top of Emacs, if I had more time to spend in my hands.