m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Ken wrote:
On 05/03/2010 10:37 AM m.roth@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.
Bob McConnell N2SPP