Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/05/30/05:15:27
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Felix Natter wrote:
> but this is *hard* if you're new to emacs: it has a whole different
> way of cut&paste (not shift/ctrl+ins/del)
This is easily fixable: Emacs comes with pc-bindings-mode and
pc-selection-mode commands which make it behave like many Windows
programs with respect to key bindings and cut/paste.
> and debugging is done in a command-line fashion (as far as I got to
> know it).
Not really true: the Emacs debugger support shows you the source at
the same time, and you can step through it visually.
> I think using emacs as an IDE is a playful thing - you have to want to
> struggle with all the emacs stuff, and this will mean that it will cut
> down on programming efficiency.
In the long run, it will actually boost productivity; it has for me.
The reason is that Emacs supports all the major platforms (the DJGPP
version runs on DOS and all versions of Windows), so there's only one
editor you will need to master, ever.
Also, I find messing with Elisp rather unnecessary for 90% of tasks,
since almost every imaginable feature is already implemented for you
in some package that comes with Emacs. You just need to know how to
find them efficiently.
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