On 22 March 2016 at 10:43, David B. Lamkins <da...@lamkins.net> wrote:
> FWIW, apl-pkg is much more than a wrapper around an external editor. > Similar to gnu-apl-mode, apl-pkg provides a number of tools for > programming-in-the-large. > Of course. I did not intend to disparage your (or anybody else's) work. My intention was to raise the level of discussion from a small implementation detail as to how to start an external editor to the more important issue of how to provide a pleasurable development environment (which the commandline+external editor is not, IMHO). > Before aplwrap and apl-pkg I very much liked gnu-apl-mode. A couple years > back -- after having used Emacs for four decades -- I wanted to *finally* > learn vi, so I ditched Emacs and switched everything over to vim (and more > recently, vis). As someone who lives in Emacs, and have done so since the late 80's, I find it surprising that you decided to move to vi, but that's not for me to judge. :-) My personal opinion is that Emacs is the awesomest thing ever, but the more tools the better. :-) Regards, Elias
