Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?

[Elena]

On Dec 6, 10:41 am, Miles Bader <mi...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> This seems unlikely. There are certainly situations where typical IDE
> >> features are useful, but I've not observed any real difference in
> >> productivity between those who use them and those who don't (we've got
> >> both types here). The difference seems largely on the level of "emacs
> >> vs vi": people are most productive using tools and processes they're
> >> used to; the actual details are less important.
>
> > Miles, as I've stated already, if you compare Emacs power users to IDE
> > rookies, you won't see much of a difference.
>
> But I don't think I'm doing that.  You used the term "rookie" for some
> reason (I don't know why), but most of the people I'm thinking of are
> really sort of in the middle -- they've certainly used VS for many years.

Years of usage do not equal years of experience.

Again, since IDEs do not require you to understand the details of what
you are doing, even using an IDE for a lot of years does not make you
an advanced user.  Heck, I have been using Microsoft Word for ten
years without thinking about myself as a confident user.

> > IDE users, OTOH, can just get along with what their IDE provides them.
>
> Only for the most trivial of tasks.

Well, if Emacs packages can't manage to accomplish such tasks in a
straightforward manner, then I would say such tasks are not trivial at
all.