Christopher Sawtell wrote:
This is a good opportunity for someone to put up another editor and language for comparison purposes.Not really imho. emacs is a _huge_ software system which will need the whole of an evening, and more, to merely scratch the surface.
vim is similar.
Diving into the thread early - and thanks everyone for the informative discussion - on behalf of the GLU workshop for June 1st, I must concede to Chris's point. It is better to try and do one or two things well. So we'll stick with Emacs, its handling of C, and Emacs' range. After the cuppa, should people be so inclined, we can put some Python code and some Pike code into Emacs, to get a better idea of the difference. Depending on time, we'd look at PHP too preliminarily. PHP would make for an important session in it's own right, whenever and wherever Steve wants to put something on.
Perl is mentioned less often on this list, but I too would like to see someone outlining it.
Good luck Chris & Nick in building up the Scripting Series.
Cheers all,
Rik
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