From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 27 9:58: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63B937B405 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 17808 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2002 16:57:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO max) ([66.92.76.227]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Jun 2002 16:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: <200206271257190234.09B3CF21@mail.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <1023843454.47009.21.camel@chip.wiegand.org> References: <20020611095736.A16127@lpt.ens.fr> <20020611230746.GH45825@hades.hell.gr> <3D0698A8.9C047411@pythonemproject.com> <1023843454.47009.21.camel@chip.wiegand.org> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:57:19 -0400 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gui editors - mostly just griping (you've been warned) I gotta vent somewhere. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Okay, I installed nedit and I do like what I see. I'll be using it and >one other new one I found - on the zend.org site, for web page >development. That one is big and has a ton of stuff I don't need but so You really really really should use Emacs. Of course, editors are a religous thing, but Emacs has a couple of things that really recommend it: 1] It's everywhere. Once you learn Emacs (not a trivial process, but then few editors are), you'll have a skill you can take to any platform. 2] It can do everything. It has been around for ages and has hacks to solve virtually any problem you might come up with. Get the O'Reilly book and be prepared to accept the editor Borg. It's main drawback is that it is a huge application, so you need to have plenty of RAM. But just launch it when you log in and you never need to leave it. There's shells, compilers, everything for it. And you can use it from the Console in text mode pretty much exactly like you use it from X. There's a very active community (check the mailing lists and the newsgroups). You won't regret it. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog http://jdarnold.tzo.com/HomeTheater To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message