Re: Emacs learning curve

[joakim]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I disagree that Emacs is actively trying to work against certain classes
>> of users, as you seem to suggest.
>>
>> Obviously, Emacs has varying degrees of support for different
>> programming languages. Somebody has to provide such support, it does not
>> materialise out of the blue, and as with most free software support
>> follows the interest of the developers.
>>
>> If C# is poorly supported, it simply means that very few dedicated emacs
>> hackers has had the need/motivation/time to provide it. In contrast,
>> Emacs offers some of the best Common Lisp support anywhere, complete
>> with cross-referencing, documentation access, completion and minibuffer
>> argument hints.
>
> The question is why the respective facilities are not part of the
> generic Emacs language support framework.  Support for every language
> has a completely disjoint set of features, keybindings, highlighting,
> and so on of wildly differing quality, design and usability.
>
> One problem with learning Emacs is that you have to learn it new for
> each language, and every person writing language support has to create
> it new from almost scratch.
>
> If there is a new language, and two different people write non-trivial
> support for it, the results will be wildly different.

I agreep. I find the lack of consistency between Emacs tools quite
frustrating.

Personally I try to help improving this situation by intermittently
helping out with CEDET, and whine about consistent key-bindings between
modes now and then.

-- 
Joakim Verona