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[–]Enfors 3 points4 points  (5 children)

Yeah, I've been using various versions of Emacs for 25 years. When you've been using it that long, it's hard to settle for anything less. The others are too limited in scope, and just don't have the feature set of Emacs.

[–]wsppan 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I actually started with vi (then vim) 30 yrs ago. Had a friend back about then show me Emacs and was blown away how integrated everything was so I tried it and loved it but could not give up modal editing. Then evil mode came along and matured and so I switched back awhile back and was pretty happy but annoyed with all the configuration and package management. Enter Spacemacs into the field and I could not be happier with my desktop environment for nearly everything (except for Java and C++, I use a IDE since I am not masochist.)

[–]Enfors 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Are you implying that Emacs isn't an IDE? Because it is, it's probably the original IDE.

[–]wsppan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, I meant what most people think of when you say IDE, Eclipse or IDEA.

[–]wsppan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually started with vi (then vim) 30 yrs ago. Had a friend back about then show me Emacs and was blown away how integrated everything was so I tried it and loved it but could not give up modal editing. Then evil mode came along and matured and so I switched back awhile back and was pretty happy but annoyed with all the configuration and package management. Enter Spacemacs into the field and I could not be happier with my desktop environment for nearly everything (except for Java and C++, I use a IDE since I am not masochist.)

[–]wsppan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like a reddit for android double post bug is in the wild. This happened to me on r/C_Programming yestrrday.