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  • Re: Editor of choice

    From Julieta Shem@21:1/5 to steve on Thu May 30 14:45:49 2024
    steve <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> writes:

    WHat editor do people use these days? any favorites? i still use emacs;

    I still use the GNU EMACS.

    i have tried atom and vscode but could not get the REPL server right.

    VSCode and all the others are not as easy to understand as the GNU
    EMACS. With the GNU EMACS, you can read the code of the bit you're
    interested in and figure out exactly what it does. The GNU EMACS makes
    even a system like Windows usable.

    VSCode has a huge community, but we need editors for a lifetime. Huge communities come and go.

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  • From Axel Reichert@21:1/5 to Julieta Shem on Thu May 30 20:19:03 2024
    Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> writes:

    steve <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> writes:

    WHat editor do people use these days? any favorites? i still use emacs;

    I still use the GNU EMACS.

    Same here.

    Emacs was in fact one reason to learn Lisp. Once I did that I became a
    more confident tweaker (.emacs/init.el) and a more compentent user.

    we need editors for a lifetime

    Yes! With almost 30 years of use, I have over time incorporated a lot of advanced things into my daily routine, so for me the editor has become
    more powerful than in my beginnings, simply because I use more features
    of this power tool. Tools need to be mastered, and, in order to be worth
    the time put into mastering them, they need to be powerful tools.

    https://emacsnyc.org/2014/08/11/the-editor-of-a-lifetime.html

    Best regards

    Axel

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to HenHanna on Thu May 30 20:40:55 2024
    XPost: comp.editors

    On Thu, 30 May 2024 13:05:38 -0700, HenHanna wrote:

    Vim does fine with Python and Lisp (Scheme).

    The thing with Vim is, there are so many Vims, and Neovims, and Vis, and
    Gvims, and what all to choose from. And they are all subtly different ...
    and incompatible.

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  • From De ongekruisigde (ds.)@21:1/5 to Julieta Shem on Fri May 31 07:30:37 2024
    On 2024-05-30, Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> wrote:
    steve <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> writes:

    WHat editor do people use these days? any favorites? i still use emacs;

    I still use the GNU EMACS.

    Indeed, why would anyone want to move away from Emacs?


    i have tried atom and vscode but could not get the REPL server right.

    VSCode and all the others are not as easy to understand as the GNU
    EMACS. With the GNU EMACS, you can read the code of the bit you're interested in and figure out exactly what it does. The GNU EMACS makes
    even a system like Windows usable.

    VSCode has a huge community, but we need editors for a lifetime. Huge communities come and go.

    +1

    --
    De Kerk van Roodkapje (KvR) belijdt de enige ware religie! De
    Rode Macht van Roodkapje is wetenschappelijk onderzocht en
    bevestigd (google roodverschuiving).

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  • From Kenny McCormack@21:1/5 to g@nowhere.invalid on Fri May 31 11:43:52 2024
    XPost: comp.editors

    In article <lbtlnaFmerlU1@mid.individual.net>, G <g@nowhere.invalid> wrote: >In comp.editors Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
    On Thu, 30 May 2024 13:05:38 -0700, HenHanna wrote:

    Vim does fine with Python and Lisp (Scheme).

    The thing with Vim is, there are so many Vims, and Neovims, and Vis, and
    Gvims, and what all to choose from. And they are all subtly different ...
    and incompatible.

    I use Vim and I don't have any problem with the other that I don't use, just >choose one and use it. Besides the core commands are the same, the others just >add something but never change the base.

    Vim and GVIM are the same thing - just different looks. Personally, I use
    GVIM for everything. Plain VIM (in the terminal) is unusable on the
    Raspberry Pi, because the colors are f***ed up. Yes, this is fixable, but
    it is not worth the trouble.

    As usual, LDO's comments (quoted above) are nonsense.

    --
    Kenny, I'll ask you to stop using quotes of mine as taglines.

    - Rick C Hodgin -

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  • From Cor@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 31 15:03:25 2024
    Some entity, AKA Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org>,
    wrote this mindboggling stuff:
    (selectively-snipped-or-not-p)

    steve <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> writes:

    I still use the GNU EMACS.


    Which 'other' editor?

    The use of any other editor is concidered pennance by te church of EMACS



    --

    Any marginally usable programming language approaches an ill
    defined barely usable re-implementation of half of common-lisp.
    'Paraphrased

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Spiros Bousbouras on Sat Jun 1 00:24:01 2024
    XPost: comp.editors

    On Fri, 31 May 2024 16:59:21 -0000 (UTC), Spiros Bousbouras wrote:

    There is only 1 vim , 1 neovim , 1 vi .

    Which is the one that uses Lua as its macro language?

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  • From De ongekruisigde (ds.)@21:1/5 to Cor on Sat Jun 1 10:21:14 2024
    On 2024-05-31, Cor <cornews@clsnet.nl> wrote:
    Some entity, AKA Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org>,
    wrote this mindboggling stuff:
    (selectively-snipped-or-not-p)

    steve <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> writes:

    I still use the GNU EMACS.

    Which 'other' editor?

    Emacs with evil-mode (*) is as far as anyone should go!

    The vi keymappings are useful on mobile devices.

    The use of any other editor is concidered pennance by te church of EMACS

    hear! hear!

    --
    De Kerk van Roodkapje (KvR) belijdt de enige ware religie! De
    Rode Macht van Roodkapje is wetenschappelijk onderzocht en
    bevestigd (google roodverschuiving).

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