From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 12 7:19:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (mail19a.dulles19-verio.com [161.58.134.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2FAE637B408 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.pythonemproject.com (198.104.176.109) by mail19a.dulles19-verio.com (RS ver 1.0.63s) with SMTP id 0121420271 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 10:17:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D075800.A91B7827@pythonemproject.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:17:36 -0700 From: rob X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "chat@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: gui editors - mostly just griping (you've been warned) I gotta vent somewhere. References: <20020611095736.A16127@lpt.ens.fr> <20020611230746.GH45825@hades.hell.gr> <3D0698A8.9C047411@pythonemproject.com> <20020611234540.A3373@HAL9000.wox.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Loop-Detect: 1 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 David Schultz wrote: > > Thus spake rob : > > 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. I used Emacs for a while for the mailcrypt program. It was fun sending mail thru anonymous remailers and stuff. I suppose they're all run by intelligence agencies by now :) Rob. -- ----------------------------- The Numeric Python EM Project www.pythonemproject.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message