[Eug-lug] Computer time

[Bob Miller]

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.

Completely disable emacs's language-specific modes by putting this
in your ~/.emacs .

	(setq auto-mode-alist ())

> 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.

The history lesson should make it obvious why emacs doesn't share the
unix tools philosophy.

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Bob Miller                              K<bob>
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