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Re: What IDE features do we need?
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: What IDE features do we need? |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:12:21 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> My opinion is that things like how to mark regions are not _that_
> important in attracting new users. At least, not the sort of users that
> would be staying with Emacs anyway. I don't think it's that big a deal
> for newbies whether they use <shift>+arrows or C-<space> to create a
> region. As long as it works well, of course.
>
> What is important is _features_. About 3 years ago, I was using
> hi-lock-mode to highlight some anomalies in a log file (found by a
> regexp). My boss (an ex-programmer) saw it, asked me what I was doing,
> and within an hour had Emacs on his PC and was using hi-lock-mode to
> look at other log files.
>
> However, the lack of certain features is critical. Juri, what were the
> features of that IDE that made the "unskilled novice" so productive?
Y'know, all these "intellisense", code browsing and refactoring things.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: What IDE features do we need? [Was: Please stop proposing changes in defaults!], (continued)
- RE: What IDE features do we need? defaults!], Drew Adams, 2008/04/22
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Alan Mackenzie, 2008/04/22
- RE: What IDE features do we need?, Drew Adams, 2008/04/22
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, joakim, 2008/04/22
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Eric Hanchrow, 2008/04/22
- RE: What IDE features do we need?, Drew Adams, 2008/04/22
- Re: What IDE features do we need?,
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- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/23
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Stefan Monnier, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Richard M Stallman, 2008/04/24
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Mike Mattie, 2008/04/28
- Re: What IDE features do we need?, Mike Mattie, 2008/04/28
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