Dave's Programming Blog » Emacs http://dev.mcleish.id.au The Church of Alan Turing of Latter-Day Sorcerers Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:09:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Editing comfort http://dev.mcleish.id.au/2010/10/editing-comfort/ http://dev.mcleish.id.au/2010/10/editing-comfort/#comments Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:33:55 +0000 David http://dev.mcleish.id.au/?p=110 Emacs is on my long list of things that I love in theory, but in practice have only the most tenuous of grips on. (See also: Go, wine tasting, Fourier analysis. Also, I know I ended a sentence with a preposition. Suck it up.)

So – and I say this with all love and in spite of my new year’s resolution – Eclipse with Counterclockwise? So much easier to use than Emacs with SLIME. Almost certainly less powerful, but for the purposes of learning a language, I do not care.

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A backup resolution, in case the rabbit hole turns out to stink, is to switch to vi.

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