I have been using Eclipse for the last 10 years roughly. Having a polyglot project made this choice obvious.
Now that our code base is in Clojure at 99%, I do not feel tempted by emacs. May give a try with LightTable however. I used to do most of my editing with emacs in the 1980s, using the first version written in Teco on tops-20. In these times it was a vast improvement on line by line editing. But I can't get back to it, the keyboard shortcuts do not seem to fit in my brain anymore. Years of WYSIWYG probably shrank this brain function to a bare minimum :) Luc P. > > On Apr 16, 2014, at 10:48 PM, Mikera <mike.r.anderson...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:57:56 UTC+8, Mike Haney wrote: > >> The conventional wisdom seems to be that you will end up learning emacs > >> eventually if you spend any amount of time doing clojure or lisp, so you > >> might as well learn it from the start. That is definitely the approach > >> taken in the braveclojure book, and he may be right, but I have no regrets > >> starting with lighttable. > > > > As a counter-example to the "conventional wisdom", I have never really used > > Emacs and I've being doing Clojure successfully for around 4 years now. I'm > > sure Emacs is great for those who have taken the time to master it, but it > > certainly isn't necessary to be productive in Clojure. > > > > I personally use Counterclockwise - this is mainly because I also do a lot > > of Java work in Eclipse and it makes the polyglot integration much easier > > if you aren't switching tools all the time. > > > > I'm also quite excited about the potential of things like Session or > > Gorilla-REPL for exploratory / data science work. I like the way that the > > Clojure ecosystem is developing a lot of innovative, plug-able components > > and tools that enable different development styles. > > A different kind of counter-example: I've used emacs a fair bit in my decades > of Lisping and now years of Clojuring, but I now too use Counterclockwise. > > IMHO emacs has tremendous and beautiful power but unnecessarily awful > usability characteristics. I hope that some day someone will develop a > Clojure environment with the former but without the later, possibly driven by > emacs under the hood. > > -Lee > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Luc Prefontaine<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
