Re: Is Elisp really that slow?

[Óscar Fuentes]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 17.05.2019 17:50, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>
>>> On 17.05.2019 17:01, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
>>>> Then, when
>>>> you need to do a search&replace that goes beyond the dumb thing that the
>>>> dialog offers, well, bad luck.
>>>
>>> What do you do to search&replace in all files across the project?
>>
>> What I do is invoke a searcher such as "ag" or vc-git-grep and then
>> wgrep to operate on the resulting buffer. This has the advantage that I
>> can simply do a replace-string or a more detailed manual edition on a
>> case-by-case basis with the associated file on a side window for
>> context, etc.
>
> A lot of the time, you don't need detailed editing for matches, though.
>
> And the "dumb thing" the popular editors offer serves this case (as
> well as many others) actually very well and better than Emacs. So
> there's no reason to feel all smug and content, in my opinion.

If those other editors do the simple thing better than Emacs and you
decided that *I* don't need the not-so-simple thing a lot of the time...
well, it is difficult to keep arguing, isn't it?