Re:My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs
by mgaunard on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:18AM
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Too many windows, panes, misfeatures I don't want, and it's also quite slow.
It's a kitchen sink even before you install any plugins, and yet all the useful functionality requires plugins.
All I want is a text editor that can quickly switch to another file, that doesn't make it annoying when the file it had open was changed, that only adds the input that I type to a file and nothing else.
Also easy integration with commandline tools (select text, pass that as stdin to a command, replace it with stdout, all done trivially without going through a billion menus and plugins), vertical selection and multi-cursor that doesn't suck, maybe a few other details, are things where it failed to deliver.
It's a kitchen sink even before you install any plugins, and yet all the useful functionality requires plugins.
All I want is a text editor that can quickly switch to another file, that doesn't make it annoying when the file it had open was changed, that only adds the input that I type to a file and nothing else.
Also easy integration with commandline tools (select text, pass that as stdin to a command, replace it with stdout, all done trivially without going through a billion menus and plugins), vertical selection and multi-cursor that doesn't suck, maybe a few other details, are things where it failed to deliver.