[geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Small schools.& elections

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Emacs never kills my C and perl formating.  No two people ever seem to
have been shipped the same emacs.  For C and perl, the default tab is 2
space in my emacs, which is perfect for me, and is really easy to change
when I want to match someone elses work.  And by really easy to change, I
mean, it takes it formatting clues from other parts of the document
somehow.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, David Cantrell wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:01:04PM -0400, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
> > In this day and age of monstrous amounts of CPU cylces going unused, isn't
> > it time to use a text editor that pretends to have a brain?
> > 
> > For instance, in the two emacs (I don't believe in keeping only one copy
> > of emacs open) that I have open now, one of them is managing the white
> > space in some python scripts (python was meant to be edited with a smart
> > editor, I kid you not), and provides a class browser.
> 
> Yeah, if I used python, I'd use emacs.
> 
> > I'm sure you've heard these things before.  I understand prefering vi's
> > keysequences to emacs chords, but what makes people prefer such a lack of
> > features?
> 
> I use both.  But I use them for different purposes.  emacs for writing
> text - whether it be plain ol' ASCII or TeX.  vi for editing code - because
> I will not tolerate my editor screwing with my formatting.  And emacs,
> at least as installed on my systems, goes out of its way to fuck with the
> indentation in my perl and C code.  For example, I do:
> 
> foreach my $foo (@array_of_foos) {
> [tab]   blah;
>         blah;
>         blah;
> }
> 
> and emacs turns my nice little tabs into:
> 
> foreach my $foo (@array_of_foos) {
>                                   blah;
>                                   blah;
>                                   blah;
> }
> 
> which is kinda silly if you ever nest stuff more than one or two levels
> deep (a subroutine definition, a conditional and a loop is sufficient to
> make that broken formatting start line-wrapping horribly).
> 
> Yes, I know I could change this.  But I don't have the time or the patience
> to learn elisp, find the relevant bit of code, play with it, test it, etc.
> And anyone telling me that it's easy will be cheerfully ignored :-)
> 
> -- 
> David Cantrell | david at cantrell.org.uk | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/
> 
>       Good advice is always certain to be ignored,
>       but that's no reason not to give it            -- Agatha Christie
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