[svlug] Text Editor

[George Bonser]

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, D. Dante Lorenso wrote:

> I LOVE emacs.  It's the good ol' time tested editor for code.  I have 
> recently discovered the "syntax highlighting" that REALLY help to view
> code while editing.  It's powerful stuff overall.  There's an Xemacs 
> as well.

But it takes three days to download it. I think Debian emacs and all the
bells and whistles are somewhere between 20 and 30 megs ... compressed. It
is the first thing I delete from the debian installation. I am not worried
about editor preference since emacs-like keybindings can be found in many
other editors. The problem with emacs is that it thinks it is an OS. Who
needs all that crap?

Have you looked a nedit or textedit from the openview clients.



George Bonser

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