A shortcut-heavy text editor blows because pressing wrong keys by accident will put editor into some useless mode, you will never figure how to get back. For example, I've just mistakenly type some key combo I can't remember, and Emacs now says "Text is read only" and doesn't allow me to input anything.
I dunno why people love these ugly terminal-emulator-style GUI editors, like Vi and Emacs, where mouse doesn't work and you have to remember shortcuts.
The only reason I'm using Emacs, is because Common Lisp has no other IDE.
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Anonymous2014-04-20 8:26
I know unix admins use vim to edit their /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and I'm so glad Microsoft has innovated us with IIS, which can be administered using RDP and GUI, which I'm using at work. BTW, Windows admins are a lot smarter than Linux ones, unless they use some Total Commander or FAR Navigator crap, instead of Windows Explorer (two-panel browsers stink like linux)
They aren't ugly or GUI. And GUI is ugly. Mouse is useless and gets in the way.
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Anonymous2014-04-20 8:36
Why Emacs has no solutions and projects, like MS Visual Studio does? They are so useful in organizing your work! MVS restores all windows, which were opened in previous session, while Emacs forces you to open every file manually and Emacs has no integration Team Foundation Server
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Anonymous2014-04-20 8:39
"emacs's user interface is rather esoteric, involving arcane terminologies and keystrokes. This is in sharp contrast to the modern software applications used today, where their User Interface are similar ＆ familiar to computer users." -- Xah Lee, Emacs enthusiast
>>4 Install CEDET, or whatever they're calling it these days.
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Anonymous2014-04-20 16:04
Common Lisp has Allegro and Lispworks, which have free versions for non-commercial use.
Emacs is pretty much dead.
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Anonymous2014-04-20 17:11
We need a google-docs like Lisp-IDE, so the Lisp code could be executed directly in browser and on server.
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Anonymous2014-04-20 17:14
>>1 Because doing stuff with a keyboard is way faster and more comfortable than poking around with a mouse. Shortcuts might take time to learn but they will be absorbed into your muscle memory and you'll never want to back to the hassle of menu-clicking. Also you can create and program new shortcuts for precisely your personal run-of-the-mill tasks.
>>15 setxkbmap -layout us -option caps:ctrl_modifier
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Anonymous2014-04-20 18:18
>>17 Moving Ctrl to Caps Lock is like stabbing yourself in the dick and eating a bag of roaches instead of stabbing yourself in the face and eating a bag of shit.
You still have to press a shitload of keys to move forward, for fuck's sake.
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Anonymous2014-04-20 18:33
>>18 I hardly think C-f or Left Arrow is ``a shitload''. The mouse has absolutely no advantage over emacs in that regard, because you can still point and click to move the cursor, anyway. Want to try another example?
>>19 (And before you ask, I swapped the left and right arrows of my keyboard once to see if I could, then never bothered switching them back. The only side effect is that I now play Touhou very strangely.)
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Anonymous2014-04-20 18:38
>>18 Roaches are a delicacy in some parts of the world.
>>34 There is no God. Terry is praying to Satan. He claims to be have been tortured by angels, but does that sound like something angels would do? Of course not, he was tortured by demons.
How do you even run this dinosaur? And why would you want to unless you REALLY needed to be secure?
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Anonymous2014-04-21 9:49
>>17 $ setxkbmap -layout us -option caps:ctrl_modifier -bash: setxkbmap: command not found
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Anonymous2014-04-21 9:57
>>32 Microsoft Windows. Symbolics Genera. IBM z/OS. Any other OS with a corporation name at the start of its title.
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Anonymous2014-04-21 10:52
Visual Studio has this neat "extract method" feature, which basically converts any chunk of code into a function, taking chunk's free variables as arguments. Just like assembly decompilers do, reversing "inline" functions.
"Wow, it looks like Franz caught up with the 90s. I haven't seen MDI like that since Windows 3.1 and early versions of NT."
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Anonymous2014-04-21 16:42
>>41 Emacs is not a language specific editor, but you could write such a function in Emacs Lisp if you wanted.
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Anonymous2014-04-21 16:49
>>38 Unix has been killing off better (or at least sufficiently different) operating systems for decades now so if you want an alternative you have to look back a ways.
The latest ports of VMS were to Alpha and Itanic, so if you have one of those lying around you can run it. HP will even send you legit install discs if you ask them nicely.
Everything not NT based isn't even worthy of being called shit.
Any other OS with a corporation name at the start of its title.
Lots of corporations put their name on a DOS and called that an OS. Which is funny, because DOS basically provided every system service other than the operating system.
>>46 Unix is like the internal combustion engine. Pretty bad by most measures, but all the alternatives require too much investment to be effective in the broad segment it currently dominates.
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Anonymous2014-04-23 13:25
Emacs works for me. I'm so sorry you're so inferior that you can't learn to use it.