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? mark