Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?

[egarrulo]

suvayu ali wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:15 PM, egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
> > Forget about using Emacs for programming.  Emacs is not an IDE.
> >     
>
> That is a strange comment. Does one always need an IDE for
> programming? Although at times it is very useful, I often find it
> intrusive.
You'd better always use a an IDE for programming, albeit for easier 
programs you .  Do not discard IDEs because you have experienced using 
bloated ones  A nicely designed IDE will not get in your way.  It will 
scale nicely from one-source-file programs to multi-project 
applications.  Indeed, if I'm not mistaken, Emacs out-of-the-box 
supports compiling and running one-source-file programs.  What it lacks 
is going beyond that (out-of-the-box).
> Also have you checked out the CEDET library for Emacs? I
> use it when I am working within a framework.
>   
CEDET has been a recent addition to Emacs.  I tried it in the past, but 
I found it difficult to configure and understand.  Maybe things have 
changed in the meantime, or I wasn't an experienced-enough Emacser at 
the time.  I'll give it a try again, since you have recommended it.

I've just stumbled upon this project: http://home.gna.org/emacs-ide/

Maybe it is what I was saying Emacs lacks.