On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote: > On 2008-03-02, at 05:50, demerphq wrote: > > *Nix editors are laughingly hateful across the board. Lots of > > features, too bad about the goddamned USER INTERFACE. > > What's an example of an editor that isn't hateful?
I was going to post a hesitant, somewhat embarrassed defense of ActiveState's Komodo (which, despite being an IDE and hence a bigger hate magnet than an NRA convention, mostly makes me happy by staying out of my way and giving me enough useful features that, when I go looking, I'm more likely to find something new and pleasantly surprising rather than a hole where a desired feature should be, but that said it's still a very long way from stable and based on top of XULRunner of all things, so I'm just going to leave that where it is and quietly disown this paragraph while creeping away) but then I remembered which list I'm on, so: Eclipse. Whenever I think of Eclipse, I think of a friend's First Rule Of Text Editors, which goes something like: A decent editor is one which lets you just drag a file in and start editing it. Eclipse gets this so devastatingly wrong that I think it must be on purpose. Every time I try it, which is a good couple of years after the previous time and my accelerating senility has masked any scars, by the time I go from installation (which deserves several threads' worth of hate itself) to Actually Editing A God-Damned File Like What I Wanted to Do In The First Place, I am propelled more by teeth-gritted determination not to let this bastard thing defeat me than whatever it was that motivated me in the first place. But eventually Eclipse's "No STOP EDITING and look at all my bloody FEATURES you PHILISTINE" will win and I'll get the magnet out. -- Yoz
