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Date:      Sat, 23 Sep 2000 19:57:22 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: perl/cgi Authorintg tools
Message-ID:  <14797.20850.815606.526798@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <37728805@toto.iv>

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Francesco Casadei writes:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:22:46PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > 	I don't want to start a holy war here, and in fact, I wouldn't mind to
> > find a fancy editor myself. I've stuck with vi because it's available on
> > all the platforms we use at work. 
> I didn't know vi had all that wonderful features. I must confess that
> I adopted a 'first-fit' policy to search for a good editor. Evidently
> I discovered Emacs before Vi! :-)

So did I, and not on Unix. However, anyone who regularly works on Unix
- any variety - would be doing themselves a favor to learn vi. I tend
to do all my work as me in emacs (I'd use it for browser if I had a
separate thread). However, I don't like the idea of having root
running that large an environment - especially when it's not obvious
which emacs window belongs to root, and which to me. So I tend to use
vi as root. Unless it's something simple, in which case I use either
ed or ex (depending on what my fingers do), because there was a time
when vi wasn't everywhere.

I don't know if anyone ever did a perl interpreter mode for emacs, but
other interpreted languages include the ability to run an interactive
interpreter in a window, so you can load and test modules, cut-n-paste
code without touching the mouse, and other good things. It manages to
provide many of the features one finds in language-specific IDE's.

	<mike






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