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Discussion on: What Makes Good Developer Tools... Good?

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Asdrúbal Iván 🇻🇪

When it comes to Emacs, which is a tool I use everyday I would say it's:

  • It's extensible: Emacs macros can be written in elisp and they pretty much can do anything.
  • It has a great user base: Emacs has been used snce many years ago, there are multiple sources if you need help
  • It's very stable: I have had stability issues with other editors, this hasn't been an issue with emacs. It's a really mature open source package.
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Tierney Cyren

This is an awesome example! On the last point, I'm curious how you'd define stable – does this mean the features don't change often, that it doesn't crash/break, or something else?

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Herb Wolfe

:%s/emacs/vim/gi
:%s/elisp/vimscript/g