Mate Nagy dixit (2009-05-15, 20:29): [...]
> no way related to each other. Even if someone writes a really small, > elegant, suckless editor core, it will be unusable until: > - it gets encoding handling right (internal, file, terminal) > - word wrapping (disabled, enabled, soft, hard...) > - syntax highlighting and autoindent, for C, Python, Lisp... > - all possible tab behaviors (soft, hard, half,...) > - autocompletion, ctags integration > These are just the absolutely necessary basics, and if you implement > these, you already have a multi-ten-thousand line application. > Sucklessness goes through the window. > (Yes, there are people who make do with mcedit, but.. come on.) > > I say dwm (for example) is good because it's good, not because it's > suckless. The sucklessness is certainly part of its goodness, but not [...] Very much agreed. As to the lisp part, even emacs cannot properly indent the loop macro yet :). -- [a]
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