Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Programming is heavily concerned by drudge tasks, unless someone has
>>> come up with ways to automate them.
>> 
>> Your world of programming then is very different from mine.
>> 
>> I've only worked on Free Software projects (some of them linked to
>> academic research, others not), so maybe I'm biased or blind, but really
>> if the amount of "drudge tasks" is so high, it would seem to me that you
>> probably have a real problem elsewhere which would be better solved by
>> eliminating those tasks completely rather then by automating them
>> via IDEs.
>> 
>> Stefan

> The features in IDEs are generally there for a reason. So clearly people
> do need them. Things like completions, context help, project dependency
> handling, task management etc are all samples of what are "better at
> hand" inside the main coding environment. Emacs does a lot well, but
> things like completion, code navigation, context help etc it is
> poor. That said it makes up for it in otherways e.g org-mode is a super
> development aid.

No argument from me here: code completion for example is a nice feature
where Emacs is not good enough yet, like many others you've mentioned.
I was just only replying to the specific portion of text I quoted which
points at a very different kind of programming from the one I'm
familiar with (the one with which I'm familiar lets me (someone who
doesn't even know how to touch-type) be just as efficient because most
of the time is spent thinking).


        Stefan