Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 12:09:52 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Felix Natter cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: rhide for djgpp In-Reply-To: <374fd4a0.2867927@news.ndh.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk 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.