RE: Introduction

I think what I miss most is DIRED. I usually *live* in DIRED...

Bradford W. Miller
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lisp-hug@lispworks.com [mailto:owner-lisp-hug@lispworks.com]
On Behalf Of ev@netfonds.no
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:57 AM
To: edi@agharta.de
Cc: lisp-hug@lispworks.com
Subject: Re: Introduction


Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> writes:

> I think that's a big mistake.  I'm mentioning this because I had the
> same misconception for quite some time and I also used Emacs/SLIME
> instead of (or in additon to) the LispWorks IDE.  Finally, after one
> or two years of fiddling about, I switched over to the LispWorks IDE
> completely and I never regretted it.  Even without modifications, the
> editor is quite similar to Emacs.  It still has a couple of quirks
> that bug me from time to time, but I can live with them.  (Not that I
> wouldn't be happy if they went away.  LispWorks, are you listening?)

I wholeheartedly agree. I guess the only thing with the editor that
/really/ irritates me, is that control-X 2 doesn't do what I want
it to do. Two or more buffers in the same window can be really useful
from time to time...

I've used the IDE all the time, but I grew up with several emacs-
flavoured editors from the beginning (my first emacsen were FINE and
AMIS on tops-10, followed by the original TECO-based emacs on tops-20,
not much later I started using FRED on MACL 1.<something> :-)), so I
guess I'm just used to the fact that emacs-style editing doesn't have
to be done in the One True Emacs.

> I still use GNU Emacs for almost everything else

Me too, e.g. I also use PCL-CVS in GNU Emacs for version handling, and
the fact that I can't do this inside the LW editor is O.k. with me.
-- 
  (espen)