It seems I've struck a nerve with my frustration using the native linux editors.
I guess I'll rephrase and just say that the best alternative I have found is to ftp to the linux workstation and gedit the file, then ftp it back. It gives me the ability to manipulate large files with ease. Others have suggested NFS and this might be an interesting alternative to ftp'ing back and forth. My users won't be compiling anything so an IDE seems like overkill. A seamless way for them to edit files on the server database from their linux workstations would be a good solution. thanks and sorry ----- Original Message ---- From: Adam Thornton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 8, 2007 8:13:20 PM Subject: Re: What is vnc On Mar 8, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Warren Taylor wrote: > due to the uniqueness of our work, an IDE is probably not worth the > expenditure and if I hear one more reference to vi I"m going to > croak. These editors are far too weak to be considered for any type > of serious work. even emacs is too weak to accomplish the task. we > have a small number of users and currently most have linux > workstations available to them. Please enlighten me as to what task is so enormous that emacs can't do it, but for which an IDE is unsuitable. In fact, just enlighten me as to what's a "stronger" editor than emacs. I have difficulty envisioning this. I have met better development environments than Emacs + Speedbar + whatever-mode ( + some combination of useful elisp), but not many of them, and only in purpose-built environments. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
