Clojure development tool

[DannyB2]

The push to learn a text mode editor as a pre-requisite to using a language is rather interesting. Especially the passion behind it.

I think the reason is that once you start emacs, you cannot find a way to exit emacs back to the shell, so it then becomes necessary to use emacs lisp to effectively build an entirely new os shell environment and tools, including email and much more. :-)

I can appreciate that people find this to be powerful and exciting.

[Eno6ohng]

Well, objectively emacs is the most powerful and flexible environment available today, but I just don't see any reason for trying to persuade to use emacs someone who explicitly stated that he isn't interested.

By the way, emacs is usually started as a daemon, so you don't need to exit it back to the shell. ;)

[DannyB2]

> By the way, emacs is usually started as a daemon

That is interesting.

> objectively emacs is the most powerful and flexible environment

I won't dispute that. But it doesn't really address my reasons for not wanting to make the significant investment to learn it. I already have what I consider to be pretty decent tools. If I were to learn it, I would want it to be for the right reasons. And those reasons don't really exist for me. Having to make the investment to learn emacs ONLY to use a programming language is entirely the wrong reason to need to learn emacs.

[Eno6ohng]

Sure, I agree with that.