On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 02:10:42PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > Roger Burton West wrote: > > I haven't yet seen anyone editing XML with anything except a graphical > > tool (text-editor plus fancy bits, usually). > > FWIW, I write large documents in xml using vi.
Me too :) It's very easy. > > I certainly find it easier to write with spaces-and-line-breaks than > > to use XML. > > The two are hardly mutually exclusive. Humm... Maybe if some programmers thought about the benefits of structured text when designing conf files syntax, the world have been a better place to live. Think about the differences of (for example) inetd.conf and xinetd.conf

