Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: <http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/> On 05/03/2010 10:37 AM m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> .... >> Nobody's mentioned glade2-- or as its listed in the gnome menu, "Glade >> Interface Designer". It's a drag-and-drop GUI for creating windowed >> apps. I.e., you select which widgets you want and drop them onto a >> window, configure them, and then use whatever editor you want to create >> the back-end code. Glade creates your app's code in variety of >> different programming languages, C included. > > 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-) 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 come in handy countless times when doing work sysadmin stuff from home, website development, and editing files on other machines on my home network. There's barely any load on the remote machine and on the local machine it's just about the same experience as editing a local file. I should say too that I've been using vi just about every day for more than a couple decades and it's fine for lots of occasions when I just want to make a few small changes or create a small file. But for creating or editing files, jumping around inside of them, complex cutting-and-pasting, in files upwards of a megabyte and/or files containing those idiosyncratic French, Spanish, and German characters and even the entirety of Greek, Pali, Japanese, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Russian alphabets, emacs is what works for me. And for other reasons too. Different (key) strokes, ken -- Find research and analysis on US healthcare, health insurance, and health policy at: <http://healthpolicydaily.blogspot.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos