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Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?


From: Helmut Eller
Subject: Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:07:15 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

* Elena [2010-12-07 11:48] writes:

> The issue here is not that we can't do without IDEs.  The issue is
> that IDEs are a productivity booster, and in an highly competitive
> market, that matters.  Building applications from a set of projects,
> refactoring, navigating help, context-sensitive code-completion, etc.
> are solved problems.  If you want to solve problems already solved,
> that's not engineering.

That the IDE forces me to use a particular editor isn't exactly an
efficiency booster.  Those tools could technically just as well
communicate with Emacs or VI instead of being "integrated" with a single
editor of a particular IDE.  The I in IDE sucks IMO.

Helmut


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