On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer <grim...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Alan, > > On Wednesday, 14. September 2011 21:34:01 Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> I've been contributing to Emacs in general and CC Mode in particular for >> 10 years. I've been the sole maintainer of CC Mode (the mode used for >> coding in C, C++, Objective C, Java, Awk, and a couple of others, and an >> unknown number of derived modes) for around 5 years. Over that time I've >> spent thousands of hours on the project. My latest release was on >> Monday, and you can find it at >> <http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/release.php>. If you use {,X}Emacs to >> hack in any these languages, I recommend you to download and install it. > > although I'm a vim-using guy, and that only if no kate is available, I have > emacs and cc-mode installed on every machine I use for coding. At times I even > use it :) > Really cool stuff you do there and thanks for the work.
It occurred to me that having a decent C and C++ editing environment might ease some of my of the spoilage I've experienced in Visual Studio for C++. I'll be checking it out. It'll mean learning emacs, though... -- :wq