Why Emacs Sucks (Part 17)

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.

>>29
Too laughably false to be a real argument, too simplistic to be good trolling material.

I think that's a matter of opinion >>30-sama

>>29
Please post a non Unix-like OS that isn't total shit. You seriously can't.

>>32
VMS

>>32
TempleOS. You can talk to God with it!

>>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.

Chatting with Satan is still pretty cool though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#.22Emacs_pinky.22

>>32
VM, VMS, Genera, BeOS.

>>33,37

VMS

How do you even run this dinosaur? And why would you want to unless you REALLY needed to be secure?

>>17

$ setxkbmap -layout us -option caps:ctrl_modifier
-bash: setxkbmap: command not found


>>32
Microsoft Windows. Symbolics Genera. IBM z/OS. Any other OS with a corporation name at the start of its title.

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.

Emacs will never have it.

dick

>>12

"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."

>>41
Emacs is not a language specific editor, but you could write such a function in Emacs Lisp if you wanted.

>>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.

If it ain't UNIX, it's shit.
UNIX is crap.

>>40

Microsoft Windows

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.

Emacs works for me. I'm so sorry you're so inferior that you can't learn to use it.