[CentOS] gcc? (w/ a bit of "vi vs. emacs")

[Rob Kampen]

Bob McConnell wrote:
> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>   
>> Ken wrote:
>>     
>>> On 05/03/2010 10:37 AM m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>>>       
>>>> someone wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> ....
>>>>> Nobody's mentioned glade2-- or as its listed in the gnome menu, "Glade
>>>>>           
>> <snip>
>>     
>>>> Interesting.
>>>>         
>>> Yeah, it's so cool, I don't understand why there aren't a bazillion
>>> Linux GUI apps for everything.  It makes creating GUI apps actually fun!
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> For an editor I use emacs because I can use it for just about anything
>>>>> vi.
>>>>> from creating plain text, shell scripts, html docs, and C code.  Emacs
>>>>> isn't just configurable, it's programmable.  You can write code to add
>>>>> or change the functionality emacs provides.  It's been around since the
>>>>> '60s and isn't likely to go away anytime in the next few decades.
>>>>>           
>>>> I could swear it had only been around since the eighties.... At any
>>>> rate, yes, emacs, the windowing operating system masquerading as a
>>>> programmers' editor....
>>>>
>>>>          mark "we should take this to alt.religion.editors"
>>>>         
>>> Yeah, I wish I had a nickel for every time I said "emacs" on a mailing
>>> list and someone came back "vi".  I'd own a paradise island somewhere.
>>> B-)
>>>       
>> I'd have had that island a decade or more ago.
>>     
>>> Just to earn myself another mythical nickel, I'll say:  With emacs
>>> tramp-mode I can, in a local emacs window, open a file on any other
>>> machine in the world to which I have ssh access.  This functionality has
>>>       
>> <snip>
>> Of course, the one *I* want is brief. I think $$ome editor$ still
>> advertise brief emulation mode. *How* many keystrokes is it to do column
>> copy in emacs?
>>     
>
> YES, brief is the best editor I have ever used. There are several 
> features like that I still miss. I actually have a couple of copies of 
> it in the original boxes, but it only runs on xx-DOS or OS/2. I plan to 
> use one of them on some 80386 based PC/104 boards I am getting ready to 
> reactivate. It will fit nicely into the 2MB flash drive with DR-DOS.
>   
Wow, I used to use this back in the day - it was a great editor but 
never made it into the 21st century as far as I know.
Another one is ultraedit - now available for linux in rpm form for RHEL 
- but it is not free.
HTH
> Bob McConnell
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