m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Ken wrote:
>> On 05/03/2010 10:37 AM m.roth@xxxxxxxxx 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
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