Toward a "modern" Emacs [LWN.net]

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 13:00 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Toward a "modern" Emacs by dottedmag
Parent article: Toward a "modern" Emacs

I've never found this to be a problem in practice. When you're first navigating a large new software project, you don't change it much and etags is indispensable for navigating it. After that, refreshing a couple of times a day is generally good enough.

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Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 15:36 UTC (Sat) by dottedmag (subscriber, #18590) [Link] (1 responses)

Have you tried doing any extensive refactoring work on large codebases? It is essential to have up-to-date lists of references, especially in dynamically typed languages, to be productive.

Toward a "modern" Emacs

Posted Sep 26, 2020 21:02 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

I have not done extensive refactoring work on large codebases. I have done Linux kernel driver development and development of several quite large systems in languages including C, C++, Perl and PHP. And Emacs has worked very well for me.