The Modernization of Emacs

[Twisted]

On Jun 20, 1:59 am, "spamfilteracco... at gmail.com"
<spamfilteracco... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 9:21 pm, Ed <iamfrac... at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Have you ever seen an, "Extractmethod," function for emacs? Whereby
> > you highlight some lines of code, press a key, and the code is whisked
> > into its ownmethod, with the appropriatemethodinvocation left in
> > its place. If you could post a link, that'd be just champion.
>
> xrefactory does this. I tried it once. It's a bit pricey , though.

Someone is charging money for an emacs addon? Are they nuts? A lot of
people won't touch emacs with a ten foot pole, and emacs is free. How
many would actually pay for something that's useless without emacs?
Especially given the near-certainty that the price is almost pure
profit margin...