Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:45:40 -0700 From: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> To: rob <rob@pythonemproject.com> Cc: "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: gui editors - mostly just griping (you've been warned) I gotta vent somewhere. Message-ID: <20020611234540.A3373@HAL9000.wox.org> In-Reply-To: <3D0698A8.9C047411@pythonemproject.com>; from rob@pythonemproject.com on Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 05:41:12PM -0700 References: <OF9E088DF4.B81E2D35-ON88256BD4.0078CF5B@simrad.no> <20020611095736.A16127@lpt.ens.fr> <20020611230746.GH45825@hades.hell.gr> <3D0698A8.9C047411@pythonemproject.com>
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Thus spake rob <rob@pythonemproject.com>: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > On 2002-06-11 09:57 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > I thought vi and emacs were the only Unix editors anyway... > > > > These are lies of the Emacs and vi folk. > > The only *real* editor of UNIX is ed(1). [snip] > Will it syntax highlight FORTRAN? Thats what led me to nedit > originally. Now I prefer it for everything. Rob. ed does not do syntax highlighting; however, this is planned for the next major release, along with a spell checker and a GUI. Emacs does anything you want[1], provided you have enough gigs of RAM and you know the appropriate incantations. (And yes, it does have a FORTRAN mode, so there's no need to write one.) I've used Emacs for two years and I still don't understand it, but I tweaked it enough that it approximates what I want better than any other editor I have tried. [1] Okay, so you can't presently write an elisp program to solve the halting problem. This is because there is no need; Eliza (M-x doctor) can solve it for you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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