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. Bob McConnell N2SPP