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 > N2SPP > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: rkampen.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100504/a52d59bb/attachment-0005.vcf>