[Eug-lug] Computer time

[Jacob Meuser]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:41:41PM -0800, Allen Brown wrote:

> > 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.

or I can not use programs that I dislike ...

seriously, with the wide choice of editors out there, why would I
spend time trying to figure out how to do that?

> > 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.

> 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.

true, but I don't find it troublesome to read the make output and go
to the line in the file.

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