at the risk of sounding off-topic.. i hardly consider myself an emacs "expert" -- the only killer app for emacs i ever used was the inferior debugger. nice, if you're doing C programming.
but i guess i never did sufficiently complex C programming that the inferior debugger was really needed. the command-line of GDB was good enough for me, and continues to be good enough for me. the tons of packages for emacs are.. nice. but i think there are better individual pieces of software that do what the emacs packages do (e.g. mail client, web browser). i never did like the emacs "one size fits all" philosophy. definitely for editing flat files, i suspect emacs would do better than VS.NET. but then notepad works just as well (i use notepad when i'm on windows). i was "touting" VS.NET as an end-to-end development environment. in that context, i seriously doubt emacs (or even, say, eclipse) can do better than Uncle Bill's offering. i never did get code folding working in emacs. and it's hard to beat the code completion feature (although SharpDevelop/Mono-Develop has this feature, which is neat.. too bad the linux port isn't complete yet). of course if you want to do something "weird" that uncle bill and his minions didn't think of, or that don't fit the windows development model, you'll be stuck. On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:00:44 +0800, JM Ibanez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 16:57:40 +0800, Orlando Andico > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > all this talk of Emacs and XEmacs... you ought to try Visual Studio > > .NET 2003 :D > > I have actually -- and I still use Emacs (at least the XEmacs Win32 > port, easier to set up) for editing instead of the builtin editor. > </tongue-in-cheek> -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
