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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like
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Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:27:07 -0800 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:41:08 -0500
> > From: "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> > I proudly mentioned my work on VC-mode, and got majorly dumped on for
> > bothering with Emacs at all. The kids out there think we're a
> > stagnant backwater, an old-boys club of bearded grognards that has
> > learned nothing and forgotten nothing for the last decade.
>
> Curiously enough, I'm having an opposite experience these days: a
> bunch of extremely able developers who work for years with MS Visual
> Studio came to respect Emacs, as a viable and powerful alternative to
> the bloated and dog-slow Studio, even on Windows, to say nothing of
> GNU/Linux (this is a dual-platform project, where software is
> developed to run on both systems). All I needed to do is introduce
> them to some optional features, such as Speedbar, ebrowse, and gdb-ui,
> and craft a simple .emacs to bind the various Fn keys to
> compile/run/debug commands they were used to have. After that, I
> never again heard anyone of them laughing at "stagnant backwater" that
> is Emacs.
Care to post an example of such .emacs?
Maybe it can be used as a skeleton for a package for such users, or
maybe we can change some defaults to match such users' expectations.
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, (continued)
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/30
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/30
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Leo, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/30
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Nick Roberts, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Miles Bader, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Miles Bader, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31