On 04/08/2011 10:16 PM, Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> OK, I guess what I was really asking is why it's still considered the
>> most powerful editor *today*.
>
>    There aren't many text editors even today that reach the same level
> of expressiveness.
>
>    Most software development IDEs have editors that do a lot of things
> (like syntax highlighting and such) but are not even nearly as powerful
> as emacs. (The most annoying thing that they usually lack is the same
> kind of autoindentation as emacs has had for centuries.)

Interesting. Every IDE I've seen has had an autoindent feature that you 
can't turn *off*. (Which is annoying, because usually it works 
incorrectly...)

Anyway, I'm still not seeing the "not nearly as powerful" bit. Emacs 
lets you change stuff yourself. Most editors and IDEs aren't so 
flexible. That's the only difference I can see currently.

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