On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:22, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > What's counterintuitive about a = append, i = insert
>
> Well the one thing more intuitive and faster than a and i is not having
> to use them in the first place...
>
> > Also, all the pattern matching constructs out of grep are available in
> > searches and substitutions.
>
> Dito nedit, presumably all other GUI editors too.
>
> > Can you use grep and sed in nano or joe?
>
> Please don't confuse the tasks of making minor edits to files and doing
> eg programming work. Nano and joe are made for a quick console editing
> job, and at that they're unbeatable (and with syntax highlighting).
> They're unsuitable for anything big. The small sysadmin job was however
> what started this in the first place...
>
> > Do you have syntax highlighting
> > in many, many languages? (I can't comment about nedit here).
>
> Nedit has a very novel way of controlling syntax highlighting
> exclusively by regexpes which can even be edited at runtime with the
> editor GUI itself. Because it can actually look a few lines ahead, the
> highlighting also acts as a certain amount of syntax checking. Many
> editors, eg kate, can't look beyond the end of the line and therefore
> fail to visually indicate many basic problems, eg brace mismatches.
Now that's one of the things I like about emacs. FAIAP, it's a language
interpreter as well as an editor.
Type in
{
int x, y z{
/* etc */
return 0;
}
and it'll flag the missing brackets.
>
> But now we're arguing editors (how boring), instead of just having a
> funny dig... ;)
>
> Volker
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