after 20 years of VI, I've tried emacs before, but I always got confused with the key commands.. does emacsdo what openoffice 2.0 does?? I doubt my wife would like to learn emacs, it's been enough for her to use SUSE and kmail <G> The bottom line is that there are many good tools out there to do a job. EMACS is a very good tool for working with program sources since it is a context sensitive editor and has modes for just about every programming language as well as HTML. It also has a document mode, but is not and never will be intended as a word processor. (I was actually kind of joking about
On Friday 11 November 2005 5:04 pm, Paul Cartwright wrote:
that when I suggested it).
Open Office Writer, KOffice, Abiword, MS Word, and others are specific tools
for producing complex documents and have many features, but none of these
will ever be good at editing program text.
There are a large number of text editors that are good for editing plain
text for editing config files, program text, et. al. Most of these editors
are very good and have followings. EMACS, Vi (and VIM), JEdit, Kate, Kedit,
Notepad, and hundreds more including those supplied with IDEs. WRT: what
should be supplied on a rescue disk, I vote for Vi (vim) not because it is
the best, but because this has been effectively the standard text editor
that has been provided on Unix and Linux systems since the early 1980s.
Some people love it, some people hate it, but there will never be a
consensus. When I work on someone else's system, I can always expect that
vi (or vim) will be available.
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Jerry Feldman