Re:Emacs is special regarding UIs
by kristopolous on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:04AM
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Pretend I have a crashing program and I want something better than the GDB repl and I don't want to import/create some project.
There's a lot of solutions for this but pretend I want to graphically step through, edit the code etc...
Emacs can do this quite well without any special hassle.
Just try using it as a debugger, when you're annoyed, search the web and you'll find your answer.
I'm not an emacs user so this is coming from a non koolaid drinker but I've been using it more and more for these special use cases
Maybe this is just as easy to do in, say, IntelliJ, I just feel like emacs will leave a cleaner footprint and have more sensible defaults.
So give emacs a try for debugging something (the Google-fu is GUD, grand unified debugger), it's not hard to use, the learning curve is pretty modest and you may be surprised by how sensible it is.
There's a lot of solutions for this but pretend I want to graphically step through, edit the code etc...
Emacs can do this quite well without any special hassle.
Just try using it as a debugger, when you're annoyed, search the web and you'll find your answer.
I'm not an emacs user so this is coming from a non koolaid drinker but I've been using it more and more for these special use cases
Maybe this is just as easy to do in, say, IntelliJ, I just feel like emacs will leave a cleaner footprint and have more sensible defaults.
So give emacs a try for debugging something (the Google-fu is GUD, grand unified debugger), it's not hard to use, the learning curve is pretty modest and you may be surprised by how sensible it is.