Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 20:53:36 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: Marc Wandschneider <MarcW@lanfear.com> Cc: "'Greg Lehey'" <grog@lemis.com>, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991125205336.A1342@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C2233054A69@akira.lanfear.com> References: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C2233054A69@akira.lanfear.com>
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On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 12:43:59PM -0800, Marc Wandschneider wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com] > > Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? > > > > > > >> The real question is: what do newbies think? Anybody want to > > >> comment? > > > > > > OK, I'll comment. Since this emacs v. vi thing has reared it's head > > > again I used emacs instead of vi all day today (I even > > renamed vi, and > > > symlinked it to emacs to force myself). > > > > Brave man. With "newbie", I really meant somebody who hadn't used > > either editor. I'm not trying to convert vi users. > > This debate is always pretty silly. My take: > > they're all cryptic and weird as hell. > > When I was first a CS student at the university, there were > exactly two kinds of undergrads. > > 1. those who had somebody show them vi first > 2. those who had somebody show them emacs/jove first > > I fell into the latter. When I first started up VI once, I > panicked, ^Z and kill -9'd the damn thing. Now I can use it to do basic > editing tasks. > > Those who first learned vi were even worse off with emacs, > because the macros on our system didn't even let ^Z work on the thing -- > they usually ended up logging off or killing a window. > > > now, what I REALLY want is code colouring again. > I discovered that emacs supports this (I don't use it but found it when reading through the help) but calls it "font-locking" :-/ Every other editor I know that supports this calls it "syntax highlighting". > marc. -- PERL has been described as "the duct tape of the Internet" and "the Unix Swiss Army chainsaw" - Computer Shopper 12/99 ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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