why is it such a piece of shit software? why does it suck so damn much? fuck i'm gonna send an email to this rms guy full of insults, i need to vent my anger.
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Anonymous2012-12-27 4:21
``Master, does Emacs possess the Buddha nature?'' the novice asked.
``I don't see why not,'' replied the master. ``It's got bloody well
everything else.'' Several years later, the novice suddenly achieved
enlightenment.
-- John Fouhy
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Anonymous2012-12-27 4:23
>>2
it's got everything, but nothing works well. slow as fuck, buggy software. fuck emacs and fuck rms and the fsf.
seriously Id like to know how anyone can say emacs is slow when IDEs like Eclipse are ridiculously slow. if anything is slow in emacs it would probably only be the graphical interface. and since the graphical interface is handled by libraries built into the OS its not caused by emacs
>>7
if Lisp managed interfaces directly instead of interfacing with a C core it could optimize memory better
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Anonymous2012-12-27 8:20
I use the Emacs server/client stuff, also I didn't compile it with a GUI so I wouldn't know if the rendering is slow seems to work fine with ncurses.
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Anonymous2012-12-27 8:24
>>10
Eclipse also has a ton more features built-in...
>>14
There are ways to solve this: - use server/client -- ``emacs --daemon'' on start up(via xinitrc or w/e), then ``emacsclient'' - run emacs on startup, and don't close it. Keep it open until you shutdown. Use this one instance of emacs to do everything. - use ``mg'' (lightweight, no elisp, same keybindings)
I only load GNU Emacs once per session and use either its gui or emacsclient -ct (aliased to e). Starting a separate copy every time you want to edit a file is worthy of a diagnosed imbecile.
Restart it only after upgrades.
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Anonymous2012-12-27 16:24
>>13
I know this is a stupid meme, but I've written this just for you: yannbane.com/2012/12/superiority-complexes.html.
hey retards i'm not talking about slow startup time. and who wants emacs without elisp? it's not like i use it for its retarded default keybindings. fucking moron imbeciles.
for example, i open an html file a couple hundred lines, and scrolling is very slow, even using the last stable version, in gnewsense, without a gui(not in a virtual machine). i open the same file with other editors, they are all faster and you can keep PgUp pressed to scroll fast without problems; in emacs the redisplay doesn't happen fast enough.
it's even worse in windows, and of course, with a gui..
also, the default html mode is pathetic, if there is a double quote in the text that is not escaped as an entity, then the rest of the file will be syntax-colored as a fucking string. other editors dont do this..
and tabbar mode is fucking slow and buggy and a pile of shit. all emacs extensions are like that, slow, buggy, and lack features.
i always thought emacs was the best text editor, the most advanced, but i was wrong.
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Anonymous2012-12-27 19:54
use vim
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Anonymous2012-12-27 21:12
>>10
usually anyone saying emacs is slow is comparing it to vim
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Anonymous2012-12-27 22:02
>>26
but i think emacs is slow comparing it even to bloated IDEs. they don't have problems redisplaying when i scroll a large html file by holding PgUp. In emacs, if I do that it doesn't redisplay fast enough, not even without gui.