[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Steve Kemp]

On Wed May 13, 2009 at 11:58:03 -0400, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:

> From my experience, the best reason to use a GUI editor is that it is
> part of an IDE which incorporates Version Control (or access there
> to), debugging, program output capture and analysis, code performance
> analysis, and GUI Interface Editing tools (actually editing the
> GUI itself in a graphical way).

  All of those are possible in Vim/Emacs - with the exception of 
 GUI editing.

  (Which I don't really miss; I do console/web apps.)

> I have yet to see vi/vim, emacs, or any other console based
> editor provide all these functions.

  I'm not sure if you're deliberately combining emacs/vi/vim as
 console applications despite repeated observations that they
 are not.

  Anyway enough beating dead horses.  If you'd like to learn more
 about vi/emacs we can point you at good resources - if you'd like
 to continue using a GUI editor then by all means do so.

  But it is worth remembering that just because you don't know
 how editors can be hooked into version systems, etc, doesn't
 mean it isn't possible.

Steve
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