Re: [MLUG] nano and emacs

["Raymond Myers" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

First off... does nano even have completion yet? Honest question.

Anyway... for me the killer feature in emacs was SLIME (Superior Lisp
Interaction Mode for Emacs). No Lisp programmer should be without it.
Another useful Lisp trick is called ParEdit mode, which does things
like automatically balance parentheses and manipulate syntactical
blocks of code. I find the AUCTex extension to be indispensable for
writing with LaTeX. These are all add-ons and not core features of
Emacs, but the point is that they don't (and AFAIK can't) exist for
something like nano.

http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ParEdit
http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/

Those are just some of reasons that I personally wouldn't switch from
emacs. If I was looking to list ALL the features that both vim and
emacs have over nano, I would be here all day.

-- Raymond Myers, B.S.
University of Missouri -- Rolla

On 4/30/07, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Christian M. Cepel wrote:
>
> > I don't get you emacs folks... Now that Nano has regexp search and
> > replace and contextual highlighting (based on different language
> > definitions), I almost never use vi or emacs.  1,$ s/blah/foo/gi was my
> > only use for vi and now, I don't even need it for that anymore.  I
> > suppose I'd like the use of macros, but I've never really found the need
> > and I'm pretty certain they can also be done inside nano as well.

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