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Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?
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Helmut Eller |
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Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs? |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:03:44 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
* Elena [2010-12-07 16:06] writes:
> On Dec 7, 4:51 pm, Helmut Eller <eller.hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is that supposed to answer my question? Emacs has modes so IDE editors
>> are easy to fix?
>
> Yes. A plugin which implements most of Vim or Emacs editing
> capabilities in an existing IDE is much less work than building IDE-
> like capabilities around an editor. So true that the former has bees
> successfully implemented (at least for the Vim-like part) by a one
> person shop (AFAIK), the latter hasn't by a whole community.
Yes, that's true. Building IDE-like capabilities is a lot of work with
or without editor.
> The metaphor about Emacs modes was that you can easily implement modes
> which work on a buffer, but as soon as you try to take control beyond
> the single buffer, things get hairy (e.g.: you start fighting Emacs
> popups which disrupt your frame configuration, etc.). Of course, if
> your goal were to implement a full-fledged Emacs-like environment out
> of an IDE, things would get hairy as well.
Well, yeah: if it hurts don't do it.
Helmut
- Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?, (continued)
- Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?, Helmut Eller, 2010/12/08
- Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?, Elena, 2010/12/08
- Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?, Helmut Eller, 2010/12/08
- Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?, Elena, 2010/12/08
- Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?, Helmut Eller, 2010/12/08
- Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?, Elena, 2010/12/08
- Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?,
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