[ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor

[Lightner, Jeff]

vi/vim

emacs install requests from developers typically result in boxing of the ears.  :p

Truthfully though – Once MS came out with Edit as a full screen editor as opposed to that abomination edlin everything else has been gravy.  :D





From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 9:24 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor

On 10/22/2013 09:13 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
Emacs.  No one should be without an editor which includes in the standard distribution a Towers of Hanoi simulation, an adventure game, and an ELIZA simulation.
That said, vi(1) is an Essential Life Skill, and I can get around in it well enough not to embarrass myself.

I swore I wouldn't jump in on this thread... oh, well.

Agreed.

I use both emacs and vi, though my preference is emacs.  I don't use the LISP functionality anywhere near as much as Dave does, and when I need complex things done in LISP in Emacs, it's quicker for me to ask him and move on to the next thing than to try to figure it all out.

Personally, had I the time to do so, I'd create an Emacs like editor where the script component is modular.  Imagine LISP, Python and JavaScript all being "first-class" in the editor macro world, even being able to call each other's routines and so forth.  I'd probably be a lot happier with either Python or JS there, compared to LISP.

But, emacs is nice and 90% of what I need to do with it has keybindings by default or I have bound myself.  :-)

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