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Re: a look at the browser scene & emacs
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David Kastrup |
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Re: a look at the browser scene & emacs |
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Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:28:45 +0100 |
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Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
> News about the browser world
> http://www.macworld.com/article/139022/2009/02/safari4firstlook.html?t=232
>
> emacs really needs to keep up.
>
> The IDE idea, from 1990s to 2000, basically reduced emacs market share
> from perhaps more than 50% in the early 1990s to maybe 1% today among
> professional programers.
>
> emacs today has lots of problems. Many of the “emacs way”, are
> technically inferior. But the nice elisp system holds it back still.
>
> The way for emacs to advance, is to get more people to use emacs.
> Emacs users today are already just the very small clique, half of
> which are perhaps over 40. With these small circle of people, every
> idea that's not “emacs way” gets stamped out.
Or gets adapted to the Emacs way. The result is that people get one
consistent tool.
> Emacs 22 took a few major step, by having syntax highlighting on by
> default, and CUA mode as a option. Emacs 23 took it further,
Emacs 23 is not yet finished.
> by having cursor move by visual line, and have highlight selection on
> by default. I presume that in emacs 24 might have CUA mode on by
> default...
It quite certainly won't.
> but these changes are happening quite late.
> The emacs on the mac, in particular Aquamac emacs and Carbon emacs,
> did significant job in saving emacs from oblivion.
I disagree. That's something only a Mac-centric person could say. The
cross-platform upstream code foldback has been minimal.
> There are a lot needs to be done, especially on the Windows platform
> because it is used by most people.
Platform-specific additions are a dead end since they tend to be
single-person efforts that die out once the person can't be interested
anymore.
--
David Kastrup
- a look at the browser scene & emacs, Xah Lee, 2009/02/25
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- Re: a look at the browser scene & emacs, Richard Riley, 2009/02/25
- Re: a look at the browser scene & emacs, Miles Bader, 2009/02/26
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- Re: a look at the browser scene & emacs, Tassilo Horn, 2009/02/26
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