On Jun 18, 4:08 pm, Stefan Kamphausen <ska2...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > these modern IDEs really do a tremendous job at organizing projects and > providing additional information at programming time. It's just, their > text-editor components suck. > > If you are a Java developer, it's probably better to stay away from Emacs. > Should you ever get used to it, you're doomed to never be able to use > something else, and Emacs is not particularly good at Java programming. >
See, this is it. Navigating java libs, maven repositories, project directories, xml files, et cetera et cetera is a much more arduous task, imo, than dealing with clojure code, which I find fairly trivial and not really needing much advanced editing features. I'm likely to want to keep my methods short and my files small. Strangely, I must admit that in the past I did find vim a bit more modern than emacs and its keys generally more sensible, especially when using shift-semicolon instead of esc. I just looked it up and vim does have clojure support with paredit and slime. My main problem with emacs is that most things require too many key presses, and I feel that navigating solely through emacs multi-key keybindings, on the advocacy of not taking my hands off the keyboard, is a recipe for RSI. Perhaps there's virtue in using the trackpad after all. I don't know, I'll see how it goes. > That being said, I had my best times in front of the computer with > Emacs/SLIME and Emacs/AUCTeX. > I had this similar situation with latex a few years ago, trying to get myself into the emacs/auctex holy grail of productivity, and I must admit that after a few days or weeks abandoned it for Kile, the KDE's latex IDE, and for latex documents that are mostly composed of text I quite liked lightweight markup languages, especially those in python that output latex as python code is quite pleasant to read and modify. I just simply found myself much productive with those. http://kile.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language :-) J > ;-) > > Cheers, > Stefan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
