Emacs is considered unprofessional in unprofessional work places.
replyDictating specific tools without a very strong technical justification is a strong signal that your management doesn’t trust you to make any important decisions.
> I believe, Emacs is considered unprofessional in a lot of places?!
replyWhy would it be "unprofessional"? It's an editor. I've used it in every job since I left college 20+ years ago.
You should have seen the expression on the faces when I mentioned "Emacs" during my job interview...
replyThe only expression I have gotten was something like "Why not vim?" and my response was "Because emacs is better, and I can always use evil-mode if I want the vim bindings". Then it gets installed (by me or an admin) and I use it. I can't imagine anyone actually caring, that's pretty petty of them, or lazy based on your other comment about it being too much work for sysadmins.
reply> Emacs is considered unprofessional in a lot of places
replyWhat? Why? Who the hell would ever forbid anyone from using a tool that literally makes them more productive? I mean, as the Russians say: "If drinking vodka at work interferes with your job, quit drinking vodka... at that job"
The main argument is that having the same setup on all work stations makes maintenance easier for the sysadmins and you don't run into inconsistencies between developers that only come about as a result of different setups.
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