Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:30:29 +0100 From: Mike Woods <Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Subject: Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun Message-ID: <416269B5.2060506@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20041005085744.GB1837@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <20041002225028.05205e9a.metaridley@mchsi.com> <200410042154.52088.dgw@liwest.at> <20041005085744.GB1837@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > I can almost agree with what's written above, except for one minor but > important detail. If you can use an editor that suits your needs both in > console and GUI environment, both for assembly, Perl, Python, Java, C, C++ > and whatever else you find yourself writing, an editor that can easily be > adopted to editing plain text email messages, theses in LaTeX, or even to > browse the source code of an operating system... why would you want to > torture yourself with a strange, difficult to use editor? I think for a lot of people, myself included the choice of editor often comes down to the KISS principle, all I really need from an editor is a means of putting data in and changing it around in a comfortable manner, I tend to spend most of my time using easy edit (default editor if you didnt know) quite often even while in X although I also use gedit, it has all the functionality i need and syntax highlighting to boot which makes it handy for perl work but since i do a lot of my editng over ssh sessions it doesnt get used that often :) -------------- Mike Woods IT Technician
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