From: Michael Kelly <mkelly2002NOSPAM@...>
Date: 2002-01-01T02:22:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29872] Re: Yet Another Newbie

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 03:30:04 -0500, Le Wang
<lewang@?(nospam)?.bigfoot.com> wrote:

>I second XEmacs.  If you learn one editor for programming, it should
>be XEmacs, imho, and no offence to the vi[m]? guys.  You can find a
>speciliazed mode for any programming language.  And most of these
>modes will have IDE type features, which I believe no other editor
>offers.

Hi.  I've used XEmacs, mostly with C++ programming, but
I have to admit I'm starting to get spoiled and expect
auto-completion features in an IDE.  I like to hit the
'.' on a class instance and get a method and property
list.  Is XEmacs doing that these days?

Also the odds of me learning Lisp
are next to nil so for me there will never be the
programmability there that other environments
might offer.  For compiling C/C++ and going to the
line of code of the error it's fine.  Anyway, at
the moment I'm not often in Linux mode.
I'm into mixing and matching with COM.
If I ever get into CORBA then maybe
I'll do more on Linux.


Mike

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