On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:46:21AM +0800, Elias Mårtenson wrote: > On 22 March 2016 at 10:43, David B. Lamkins <[1]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).
Understood. If I gave the impression that I took offense, it was unintentional. I only wanted to add a bit of exposition for the benefit of folks who don't remember aplwrap. > > 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. :-) Believe me, I know. :) I'm one of those Emacs users who used Emacs for *everything*. Log in, start Emacs, do all of my work (and mail, and news, and web, and music, and ...), and log out. :) But after forty years, several bouts with RSI (mostly pointer-related, but also "Emacs pinky") and numerous occasions of having to work as a guest on systems where Emacs wasn't installed, I figured it was time to learn vi. (Nano, of course, is broadly available but not especially helpful.) It took me about three weeks to make the transition. > Regards, > Elias > > References > > 1. mailto:da...@lamkins.net
