On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Alex Baranosky
> <alexander.barano...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been considering switching to Emacs because it seems to be the de facto
>> standard for the community.
>
> I'd disagree with that. Yes, there are a lot of Emacs users in the
> Clojure community but I think that's the Lisp bias rather than
> anything else. If you're working extensively with Java (as well),
> you'll want to either stick to IntelliJ or look at Eclipse + CCW.

Or Netbeans+Enclojure.

> Emacs is a very different beast that takes a lot of getting used to. I
> used it day in, day out a long, long time ago (for C programming,
> mostly) but when I came back to it recently as a trial because of the
> seeming bias toward it in the Clojure community, I had a really hard
> time - it was just too alien after working with Eclipse for years -
> and I gave up after about a week of frustration.

So much for the "it's like riding a bicycle" theory of emacs mastery, then. :)

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