[Wylug-discuss] editors (was KDE)

[Peter Nix]

Jim,
One thing to be said in favour of emacs is that its calendar  
calculating facilities
http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/emacs_426.html
include conversion to/from, among many others, the French  
Revolutionary Calendar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolutionary_Calendar
Peter

On 9 Jan 2006, at 00:23, Jim Jackson wrote:

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> Editor wars - what fun :-)
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> 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
>>
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> There is NO editor more featurefull than EMACS!
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> But, of course, many would say that's its main problem, and that  
> emacs is
> a windowing environment/OS and not an editor :-)
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> cheers
> Jim
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