Emacs is Dead (2010)

Re:Emacs is Dead (2010) by philsnow on Sunday June 02, 2013 @08:09PM (#5810640)

How much effort do you have to put in to keep your .emacs.d up to date ?

I only started using emacs in emacs 22, so I haven't had to keep things working for 5-10 major releases like I'm sure some people have, but my init.el and .emacs.d have been pretty static the whole time.

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Re:Emacs is Dead (2010) by monkmartinez on Sunday June 02, 2013 @09:31PM (#5810843)

Do you follow @melpa_emacs on twitter? Packages are not static by a loooooong shot. I am mainly interested in using emacs for Python, Org-mode, JS, HTML. In terms of years of use, I am on year three or so... but I like to keep my shit on lock. My biggest mistake was trying Pycharm. Now I constantly compare Emacs to Pycharm... and it just doesn't compare.

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Re:Emacs is Dead (2010) by philsnow on Monday June 03, 2013 @01:02AM (#5811482)

I build my emacs from trunk every ~1-3 months for No Good Reason (tm), and I scarcely ever have anything in my own configuration (init.el, custom.el, various random things I've installed in ~/.emacs.d) break.

(I also edit python in emacs regularly, not sure what's changed in the last N years)

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Re:Emacs is Dead (2010) by easytiger on Monday June 03, 2013 @05:10AM (#5812154)

if you don't need the features or bug fixes don't upgrade. You simply have status anxiety

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