Re: [GD-General] Eiffel

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J C Lawrence <cl...@ka...>:
>Thatcher Ulrich <tu...@tu...> wrote:
>> These days emacs knows a lot, straight out of the box.  It knows
>> about RCS and CVS, it knows how to indent and highlight various
>> languages, how to run a build tool and bring you to the errors,
>> how to run a source-level debugger, how to auto-complete.  It's
>> got rectangle modes, outline modes, text modes, spell checkers,
>> yadda yadda.

>FWLIW those things have been true for at least 6 years, and I think
>closer to 8.

At least 13. I used to live in emacs, read mail, news, code, debug,
everything.

> Conversely, my approach is to make the tools adapt to me.

Which is fine, right up until the point where you have to some work on
someone elses machine, or vice versa.

Cheers,
Phil