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"The feature that made me try VSCode for real. You can hover any function or variable, press command, and see its definition in a little popup. Or jump straight to the code."

Are you fucking kidding me? This is the amazing feature that made this guy "admit VSCode is a better editor than Emacs"?

etags, gtags, ctags, universal-ctags, rtags. It really doesn't take much searching to run in those or their integration with Emacs. It's difficult to imagine this guy using Emacs for 10 years and never becoming aware of any of them.

Not to mention the offhand dismissal of the value of the rest of Emacs because of some single feature (which Emacs doesn't actually lack). Everyone's entitled to their opinion, I guess.

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That was the exact thing that came in my mind first. Here 10 years might just mean the date author first tried Emacs and not the time for which Emacs is the primary editor.

All those tags options require a gen tags file step that is completely inadequate and cumbersome

That step can be completely automated.

You could also use something like the dumb-jump package which doesn't even require a tags file. It's not perfect, but it suits the needs of a lot of people.

...or you could just use the editor that does what you need out of the box.

Yes, emacs is great but many people will go with less friction.

"...or you could just use the editor that does what you need out of the box."

If your needs are simple enough that you don't need Emacs, more power to you.

Some people are happy programming in Notepad because it does all they need -- or all they think they need.

haha, I bet his mind will be blown by Eclipse/IntelliJ then.

ah, but you have to understand, "muh ide sucks!!11! use vim!!1!!"

IDEs are great but need to work on lowering the bar for writing plugins / extending behavior. Say what you will the bar to make emacs do what you want is significantly lower than writing a plugin for Eclipse / Clion / Visual Studio.

Ok, but what is even more amazing is he didn't realise that IDEs have that feature. What did he think they did, just syntax highlighting?

Right, but considering this guy made a "reality" video featuring him totally pointlessly walking around outside, this level ignorance seems par for the course. The worst part is that this type of pathetic behaviour will no doubt land him a keynote at some "exciting" conference.

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