Re: No automatic tabs in Emacs?

[Helmut Eller]

* Elena [2010-12-07 16:06] writes:

> On Dec 7, 4:51 pm, Helmut Eller <eller.hel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is that supposed to answer my question?  Emacs has modes so IDE editors
>> are easy to fix?
>
> Yes.  A plugin which implements most of Vim or Emacs editing
> capabilities in an existing IDE is much less work than building IDE-
> like capabilities around an editor.  So true that the former has bees
> successfully implemented (at least for the Vim-like part) by a one
> person shop (AFAIK), the latter hasn't by a whole community.

Yes, that's true.  Building IDE-like capabilities is a lot of work with
or without editor.

> The metaphor about Emacs modes was that you can easily implement modes
> which work on a buffer, but as soon as you try to take control beyond
> the single buffer, things get hairy (e.g.: you start fighting Emacs
> popups which disrupt your frame configuration, etc.).  Of course, if
> your goal were to implement a full-fledged Emacs-like environment out
> of an IDE, things would get hairy as well.

Well, yeah: if it hurts don't do it.

Helmut