From: Surendra Singhi Date: 2006-08-27T16:33:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Why Ruby does not nead an ide "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" writes: > Charles O Nutter wrote: >> On 8/26/06, julesjacobs@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> Emacs *is* an IDE. It just doesn't have "advanced" features like code >>> completion based on the type of the objects. >> >> >> AMEN. I'm glad I'm not the only one tired of hearing Emacs users belittle >> IDE users, as though they're running any closer to bare metal. For a >> language like Ruby, for which code completion, refactoring, and similar >> features are much harder (or impossible) to implement, there's very little >> difference in weight between a nice IDE and Emacs. Last time I checked, >> Emacs was pretty damn big. >> > I don't know about Emacs, but xemacs-sumo was bigger than OpenOffice.org > the last time I looked. :) Why do you need the sumo, if you only want to program? The sumo contains, Gnus(mail reader), erc an IRC client, auctex (a latex editing mode), and modes for so many other languages, and things. Someone above mentioned that it is an OS, yes it is, but you can also strip it down by removing things which you don't use/or don't want to use. Cheers, -- Surendra Singhi http://ssinghi.kreeti.com, http://www.kreeti.com Read my blog at: http://cuttingtheredtape.blogspot.com/ ,---- | "O thou my friend! The prosperity of Crime is like unto the lightning, | whose traitorous brilliancies embellish the atmosphere but for an | instant, in order to hurl into death's very depths the luckless one | they have dazzled." -- Marquis de Sade `----