Emacs does what I want...but what do you want???

Sometimes I activate Emacs-Code-Browser to have a more Kommodo/Eclipse-like look and feel.

Plus cperl-mode and sepia and some self-written(!) macros doing text-transformations (mostly wrapping perlcode, because I'm still mostly lost in elisp ;-) + self-written(!) keybindings do what I want.

fly-make-mode and auto expands improve my coding speed dramatically.

Emacs is on every platform, it's free, using gnuclient makes the startup fast as lightning, and it can be used without X in console-mode (e.g. while login with ssh on another machine).

Well there are so many flavors of setting up emacs ... but last time I saw Komodo edit it was for sure much slower than emacs.

Anyway it's difficult to compare different IDEs w/o any specific list of "important features" in a "common language" (i.e. do VI-user understand what I mean with fly-make mode?), such that you risk comparing apples and peaches...

You should start giving us a list of features you consider important with some explanation such that you can get a valid comparison.

Cheers Rolf

PS: A friend pointed me to textmate, which seems very nice but is restricted to MacOs. Looking for emulation of the very strong snippet feature I found yasnippet.el for emacs. 8)

In reply to Re: Komodo 5.1 versus the others. (emacs) by LanX
in thread Komodo 5.1 versus the others. by Steve_BZ

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