> But I'll counter with, why should people need to learn -- what I'll > politely call -- a non-intuitive editor to do occasional simple edits > of text files?
Understood, but vi and emacs are still on my list of software to learn. > I'm not a fan of multiple cursors / editors in the same file. I found multiple views of the same file to be quite useful in XEDIT. > Take those plugins away and these same users will scoff at the > base unextended editor. Take away CPAN and I would have abandoned Perl years ago. Libraries like CTAN are too useful to ignore. I regard them as part of the ecosystem. Take emacs. There's a plethora of stuff that has grown up around it, and that makes it more useful than it would have been in isolation. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Grant Taylor [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 18, 2023 10:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Has anyone On 8/17/23 6:28 AM, David Crayford wrote: <clipped> -- Grant. . . . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
