From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 5 09:30:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53ABD16A4CE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:30:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from geofront.co.uk (port-179.dolphin.c4l.co.uk [80.253.114.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20F8B43D41 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:30:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Received: from [132.147.16.46] ([195.194.75.70]) by geofront.co.uk (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i959Y1pc042877; Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:34:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Message-ID: <416269B5.2060506@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:30:29 +0100 From: Mike Woods User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (Windows/20040707) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041002225028.05205e9a.metaridley@mchsi.com> <200410042154.52088.dgw@liwest.at> <20041005085744.GB1837@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <20041005085744.GB1837@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:30:46 -0000 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