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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" modeGNOME Shell to support a "classic" modePosted Nov 22, 2012 18:44 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode by nix Parent article: GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode
>By this logic Emacs would also have collapsed in a heap about fifteen years ago.
Well, it did. I've been trying to use emacs for about a week every year for the last 15 years of so.
It looks like there's no real progress there. Other projects had moved from simple text editors to full-scale semantically-aware IDEs during this time.
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GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 22, 2012 19:02 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Er, that's not what I meant by 'collapsed in a heap'. I meant 'become too buggy to use'. Speaking as someone who's been using Emacs and/or XEmacs for more than twenty years now, this has never happened.
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 22, 2012 19:07 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Speaking as someone who tried to integrate a debugger (a REAL debugger, not that #$#@*&$^@#*& gdb command line) into emacs - it IS a stinking mess.
GNOME Shell to support a "classic" mode Posted Nov 23, 2012 9:23 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Ah. Personal prejudice triumphs over the facts again (the facts that Emacs is *still working* and has not imploded into something too buggy for anyone to use, despite the arguments of coupling-is-necessarily-bad mavens such as, er, me). I see. I'll ignore you on this subject from now on, then.
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