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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by wglb on Sunday October 03, 2010 @09:56AM (#1752708)
I have come to the conclusion that IDEs are overrated. I did exactly what hga notes otherwise here when I used Visual Studio--I edited with Emacs, compiled and built with VS.

I now use Emacs for everything. It has just enough pieces to be able to configure the task you want to do. In particular, I make heavy use of key mappings, for example, F11 to the compile command, which defaults to "make -k -f Makefile".

VIM is highly configurable--several at work use it. Two of our more experienced guys use Pico.

Check out "Coders at Work" to see what the truly serious programmers of our time use for IDEs. Short form, none.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by gaius on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:13AM (#1752838)
I believe Emacs already had that bound to C-c C-c by default.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by pjscott on Sunday October 03, 2010 @01:25PM (#1753107)
Emacs has all sorts of things bound to C-c C-c, depending on the mode. It's common enough that it's worth checking what it does in the current mode (With C-h C-k C-c C-c, of course).
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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by silentbicycle on Sunday October 03, 2010 @01:45PM (#1753160)
First off, it would be "C-h k C-c C-c", not "C-h C-k C-c C-c" -- "C-h k" runs describe-key on the next shortcut typed.

Idiomatically, "C-c C-c" usually means something like "commit" - send an e-mail, compile source (by starting make), etc.

C-h m (the mnemonic is "help,mode") lists all the bindings for a give mode.

Also, pressing a prefix followed by C-h (i.e., "C-c C-h") defaults to listing all keybindings with that prefix. (Sometimes there are bindings replacing that, though, like "C-x C-h", which is delete-region.)

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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by pjscott on Sunday October 03, 2010 @02:27PM (#1753261)
The funny thing is, I definitely would have typed "C-h k" in emacs. The hard part is trying to translate from muscle memory back into a string I can write down on HN.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by djhworld on Sunday October 03, 2010 @10:41AM (#1752778)
Coincidentally I'm reading "Coders at Work" right now and it somewhat inspired me to write this post!
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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by rodh257 on Sunday October 03, 2010 @05:42PM (#1753693)
I'm a total newbie to Emacs - where can I find it for Windows, the last few times there have been an 'IDEs suck!' post on hacker news I've gone looking for it, and have found different versions, and dead links. What version do you use and where did you get it?
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Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by eccp on Sunday October 03, 2010 @11:47PM (#1754537)
See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryWThirtyTwo for a discussion of versions of Emacs for Windows.
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