Hi Thomas and all, On Thursday 03 Mar 2011 04:50:08 Thomas L. Shinnick wrote: > At 08:13 PM 3/2/2011, gvim wrote: > >On 02/03/2011 11:10, John M. Dlugosz wrote: > >>What's a good text editor to use for Catalyst/TT development? > >> > >>The editor I really like for C++ doesn't handle XML well. I've been > >>using "Notepad++" for windows, but the syntax highlighting doesn't > >>understand mixing TT inside the base language, and it has tabs only > >>instead of multiple visible windows. > >> > >>I would entertain both Windows and Linux solutions. > >> > >>TIA, --John > > > >Vim does everything you will ever need if you're dealing with text > > > >:-). Try MacVim if you're on OS X: > >http://code.google.com/p/macvim/ > > > >gvim > > I second the nomination for Vim, for another important reason. I > hate switching editors. So, er... huh? > > Vim runs everywhere. I can wander from platform to platform and not > have to worry whether something capable is available. That was > really something I needed back when (15+ years) when Windows was so > badly served. Still using it, even on Solaris! ;-) > > Now if you like learning new editors, or having 2 or 3 "in your > pocket", fine. But I've not yet found something I couldn't do in > Vim. Hey I rarely need to edit in binary, but it can do it. And > hacking Unicode isn't so revolutionary now, but was possible with Vim > before some other editors. Good pedigree, barks on command, etc., etc. >
One reason why I'm not fully using Vim for all my needs as an editor is the fact it does not display Bidirectional text (e.g: mixed Latin and Arabic or in my case mixed Latin and Hebrew) in a Bidirectional way (even though it handles the Hebrew and Arabic Unicode glyphs fine). This is not a big issue with most code out there (whether Perl or otherwise), but is a major issue with Hebrew emails, works of fiction, blog entries or comments, notes, MediaWiki entries, etc. For that I've been using either KDE's Kate or katepart, the Mozilla built-in text editor which has a decent support for Bidi and similar editors like that and there are some specialised Unicode editors (and relatively primitive by Vim's or even Kate's standards such as http://projects.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Katoob or http://www.yudit.org/ ). If you don't know a language whose glyph system is written from right to left, consider your ignorance a bliss - :-D - and furthermore some Vim and BiDi users are happy with the fact it displays text consistently only in one direction (either L->R or R->L). I should also note that I've worked on some custom formats to facilitate editing text primarily in Hebrew: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/XML-Grammar/Fiction/ While having XML, I've also written a parser for two custom well-formed plain text-but-XML-based formats, which I nicknamed Fiction-Text and Screenplay- Text. The parser is a highly-Moosey spaghetti code that was used to replace something written in the now (in)famous Parse-RecDescent which may have been even worse. I now hope to convert it to Parser-MGC ( http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parser-MGC/ ) , but hope that its author will document it a bit better, and this will require a rewrite and incrementally breaking tests. I've looked into projects providing similar functionality such as http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/ and http://celtx.com/ , but I have found some technical or philosophical issues with them (that listing them is out of the scope of this E-mail.). Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Best Introductory Programming Language - http://shlom.in/intro-lang In Soviet Russia, every time you kill a kitten, god masturbates. -- http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=195378&cid=16009070 Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
