[Eug-lug] Computer time

[Allen Brown]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 02:12:21PM -0800, Allen Brown wrote:
> 
> > Emacs and vi are also not word processors since they don't really
> > support fonts.  But they are programming environments.  If you
> > will be programming it makes sense to get an editor that supports
> > you in that.
> 
> I don't like emacs because it tries to format my code for me.  I
> condsider that unsupportive, and actually kinda rude.

Like all things, it is configurable.  You can either set the
configuration so that it formats to your style, or you can
turn off formatting.

> UNIX _is_ a programming environment, made up of many simple tools,
> doing one thing and doing it well.  that's why there is indent,
> ctags, lint, sed, etc, etc.  knowing how to use those tools
> individually is far more useful than knowing how a particular
> program reimplements them.
> -- 
> <jakemsr at jakemsr.com>

I agree.  But one of the things emacs can do is to run make
and parse the editor error messages, putting me onto the
correct line number in the appropriate file to fix each bug.
None of the tools you mention do this.
--
Allen