Oh it is not a battle ! Linux users are spoilt for choice and people should try out the various choices until they find one they feel at home with. I use vi because I have done for so many years I have lost count...but also I work on Unix systems for a living and vi is omnipresent. I am so ancient that for quick one line edits I still use "ed" .. but I will never forgive the person who decided to put error messages in it .. lol. What's wrong with "?" as a diagnostic for anything you do wrong ..?? tee hee -- Regards Cliff On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 01:15:55PM -0500, Gold Bar wrote:
Ah, the battle rages on. Just so you know, I'm in the vi camp. I use vim for work since I have to run Windows & notepad just does horrible things to my scripts.
Anyone tried cooledit? http://cooledit.sourceforge.net
On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 10:51, Paul Abrahams wrote:
Chris Reeves wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:17:37PM -0700, gabriel wrote:
k now i'm looking for favourite html/perl editors i've been using quanta but it's lacking in some areas namely its issues with opening files from the side menu or its colour coding
so i'm looking for a replacement any suggestions/preferences?
vi ;-)
vi can be used for just about anything. It does some wonderful syntax highlighting, etc. and is fast - very fast.
Personally I think vi is hazardous to one's health!! It's probably more than 20 years old now, and it was designed for the days of very primitive text terminals. The biggest objection I have to vi is how vulnerable it is to typing errors. If you hit the wrong key when you're in text mode, you can easily start issuing commands unintentionally and totally mess yourself up.
Personally I use Emacs, though many people find it to be overkill. XEmacs is a popular and lighter-weight alternative. I'm sure there are others out there, but I haven't had any motivation to investigate them. But one of the most basic things I'd look for in any modern editor is the ability to move around the screen with the cursor keys and to make changes at the cursor location without having to switch modes.
Given the speed of modern computers, I don't think speed is an issue with any reasonable editor.
Paul
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