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.
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