[maemo-developers] scratchbox ide

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> Vim and Emacs are incredibly great, if you're willing to invest the time
> in learning to use them well (a couple of days for basic tasks, weeks
> for real proficiency, and then you'll still be learning new tricks for
> years).  It'll pay off in the end, if you do a lot of coding (or other
> kinds of text editing).  It's sort of like learning to touch-type.

This is going *way* off topic for maemo (time for yet another classic
emacs vs. vi bikeshed flamewar, eh? ;-) , but it's questionable
whether using emacs is going to pay up in the long run:

http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca/opinions/editors.html

One contraindication for using emacs is the very bad intellisense
support. I followed the "semantic bovinator" for a *years*, expecting
it to provide intellisense on par with other closed & open source
offerings, which proved highly disappointing. I don't know where it's
now, but if something takes years to realize, it's probably a futile
effort in the first place.

I cut my own emacs addiction ~ 3 years ago, and wouldn't require
anyone to acquire the same willingly; you may well end up spending
more time tinkering / customizing than getting actual work done.

-- 
Ville M. Vainio
http://tinyurl.com/vainio