Silly emacs coders.


Wait, I code in emacs! !@#$

quote:Original post by Anonymous Poster
http://www.parinya.ca/ , a cool clone of MSVC

This thing looks damn good. I'm definitly going to give it a try...

EDIT: I've tried it already. It is quite neat. Sadly it lacks of a "class browser", but its still worth using it.



[edited by - owl on December 16, 2003 7:34:43 AM]

Heh. I always feel inadequate when people start talking about how it slows them down to have to reach for the mouse, etc... The impression they give is that they are coding at 1000 miles a minute, smoke pouring out of their keyboard like something out of a bad hacker movie. I personally don''t code anywhere near as fast as I can type. My coding is usually methodical, thoughtful, filled with pauses as I think about the best way to structure something, etc. When I try to code at 1000 miles a minute like some hopped-up rabbit, that is when I make mistakes. In my case, reaching for the mouse isn''t so much a slowdown as it is a necessary pause as I switch files, to readjust my thinking to whatever I will be editing next. Maybe I''m just slower than everyone else, but I rather doubt it.

I use emacs not because it speeds me up, and not because of some misguided attempt to be viewed by others as some sort of elite guru kernel hacker, but because it works even when X doesn''t, and trying to edit a configuration file with a dead X and no knowledge of anything that doesn''t make have a menu bar and a context menu is not my idea of a good time. I got comfortable with emacs while learning the ins and outs of Linux, and so I use it.

It is pretty damned powerful, though, and I for one certainly don''t miss Visual Whatever all that much.

The OP seems to want a straight across clone of Visual Whatever that works under Linux; I''m not sorry to say that there isn''t one, to the best of my knowledge. Anjuta, KDevelop, vim, emacs, Kate, GEdit, NEdit, CoolEdit, Eclipse, etc... all have their good points and their bad, just as Visual Eh? does, and anybody who lets their coding habits be too strongly dictated by one, to the exclusion of all others as viable prospects, probably isn''t wise. If Visual Whatever is so perfect and the OP is unwilling to consider learning anything else, perhaps he should stick with it instead of flaming others for their choices when they suggest alternatives.

Josh
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