Comments on: Aquamacs on OSX for Ruby on Rails Development? Yep, we’re going Emacs status. http://www.danielfischer.com/2008/12/16/emacs-on-osx-for-ruby-on-rails-development/ Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Los Angeles, Technology, Geek, Science, Life Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:54:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Fingal http://www.danielfischer.com/2008/12/16/emacs-on-osx-for-ruby-on-rails-development/#comment-45085 Fingal Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:29:37 +0000 http://www.danielfischer.com/?p=308#comment-45085 Emacs' navigation doesn't just shine when finding files or buffers, but when generating text as well. When I am using a web page text area like this one, doing things like reformatting a paragraph, changing the order of some words, capitalizing a word, recasting an entire paragraph because the last thing should, I now realize, be the first thing, etc. -- all of this can be accomplished w/o taking my fingers from the keyboard. Oh, and auto-abbreviations save me from a lot of teh misspellings. Until recently, support for new programming languages has been a little slow in coming, but that's been remedied significantly in the last year or so. As long as *I* can use emacs, you can use whatever you want. And actually, I quite *like* Carbon Emacs, what specific gripes are there about it? I've forgotten now why I didn't like Aqua-emacs, but I do remember using it for a bit before switching to Carbon Emacs. Emacs’ navigation doesn’t just shine when finding files or buffers, but when generating text as well. When I am using a web page text area like this one, doing things like reformatting a paragraph, changing the order of some words, capitalizing a word, recasting an entire paragraph because the last thing should, I now realize, be the first thing, etc. — all of this can be accomplished w/o taking my fingers from the keyboard. Oh, and auto-abbreviations save me from a lot of teh misspellings.

Until recently, support for new programming languages has been a little slow in coming, but that’s been remedied significantly in the last year or so.

As long as *I* can use emacs, you can use whatever you want. And actually, I quite *like* Carbon Emacs, what specific gripes are there about it? I’ve forgotten now why I didn’t like Aqua-emacs, but I do remember using it for a bit before switching to Carbon Emacs.

]]> By: Geoffrey Gro... http://www.danielfischer.com/2008/12/16/emacs-on-osx-for-ruby-on-rails-development/#comment-41072 Geoffrey Gro... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:08:37 +0000 http://www.danielfischer.com/?p=308#comment-41072 If there's one Emacs feature that bugged me in TextMate, it would be file navigation. Yes, this sounds like a simple thing, but as Rails developers we're always working with a couple dozen files. Command-T was a big step in that direction, but it only works with filenames, not paths. If you type index.html, you end up with a list of 20 index files and no way to quickly get to the one you want. Ditto with opening a bunch of tabs and moving between them. I don't deny that Emacs has some rough edges and is hard to learn at first. But I love being able to easily get to any file with a few keystrokes. Add in the ability to customize or override nearly any keypress and it's not hard to understand why it's still around 30+ years later. If there’s one Emacs feature that bugged me in TextMate, it would be file navigation.

Yes, this sounds like a simple thing, but as Rails developers we’re always working with a couple dozen files. Command-T was a big step in that direction, but it only works with filenames, not paths. If you type index.html, you end up with a list of 20 index files and no way to quickly get to the one you want.

Ditto with opening a bunch of tabs and moving between them.

I don’t deny that Emacs has some rough edges and is hard to learn at first. But I love being able to easily get to any file with a few keystrokes.

Add in the ability to customize or override nearly any keypress and it’s not hard to understand why it’s still around 30+ years later.

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]]> By: Kayte http://www.danielfischer.com/2008/12/16/emacs-on-osx-for-ruby-on-rails-development/#comment-40720 Kayte Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:09:14 +0000 http://www.danielfischer.com/?p=308#comment-40720 Hi Daniel! How have you beeN? Hi Daniel! How have you beeN?

]]> By: Thiago http://www.danielfischer.com/2008/12/16/emacs-on-osx-for-ruby-on-rails-development/#comment-39967 Thiago Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:47:05 +0000 http://www.danielfischer.com/?p=308#comment-39967 I have used Emacs for Ruby/Rails programming, and I think that is really awesome! I have some customization and modes for Rails programming at http://github.com/tchandy/emacs-rails/tree/master, if you can take a look :-) Cheers I have used Emacs for Ruby/Rails programming, and I think that is really awesome! I have some customization and modes for Rails programming at http://github.com/tchandy/emacs-rails/tree/master, if you can take a look :-)

Cheers

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