ian reinhart geiser on Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:41:11 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Text editors


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On Monday 17 September 2001 12:10 am, you wrote:
> I was trying to stay out of this thread, but I just can't take it
> any more.
>
> Clearly, the only true editor is ed.
>
> Visual editing is overrated... line editors are where it's at! And
> none of that new-fangled ex finaglry, with its allowance of piped
> commands; that's just wimpy!
>
> (And yes, I really do know of where I speak. ed's the only editor on
> / in NetBSD. Put /usr on another partition or disk and then corrupt
> that partition or disk and you learn right quick.)

heh, something tells me that ones priorities in a text editor are quite 
different when the /usr partition is borked....

in the real world we chose an editor for what it can do when we want it to do 
what we want it to do.  me personally i diplore vi for the single reason you 
need to key in a billion inane key combos just to edit a file...  and god 
knows what state the editor is in when it randomly decides to add the text 
you typed 50x....  at any rate, we are no longer working on IBM 360s so we 
can afford the finer things in life like maby text selection with a mouse?

NEdit is pretty neat for this, light on the UI and very simple to use.  If 
you want to manage 5+ files though Kate from KDE 2.2 is the way to go.  GEdit 
is okay but the UI is still klunky IMHO. 

granted this is coming from the guy who grew up with MacOS/NeXT and Amiga 
Work Bench...  I cut my teeth on a DEC teletype terminal when I was 10 and 
hated consoles ever since, the only thing a terminal is good for is playing 
Rogue and Super Star Trek :)

flame on!

- -ian reinhart geiser

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