[Wylug-discuss] editors (was KDE)

[Jim Jackson]

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Editor wars - what fun :-)

On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, david powell wrote:

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> vim has been around for a long time , guess i could say the same in the
> past i used to use a editor called word star along time ago in cp/m but
> times change software imporves and ways change but word star was all
> control sequences , powerfull in its time , but today there are
> different editors with a lot more features , guess the only way to take
> advantage of those is to , try, learn, and take the bit by the teeth and
> give them a go ,
>
> as an example vim could if you file feature requests , or code it
> yourself also include the new features of some of the others now
> available but after a point it no longer becomes vim as you know it ,
> and can upset a lot of users that like it as it is , like you seem to ,
> not trying to be harsh here , but you have the chioce , continue using
> the apps you are used to and not get the new features or learn new ones
> that do

There is NO editor more featurefull than EMACS!

But, of course, many would say that's its main problem, and that emacs is
a windowing environment/OS and not an editor :-)


cheers
Jim