On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Bill -Sx- Jones wrote: > > Still others like BBEdit. They're even weirder. But I like them all. > > Not sure about vim, et all, but I know emacs and BBEdit allow you to > 'automate' your coding environment to a high degree.
Vim is scriptable, if that's what you mean. I'm not sure if that means to the extent that Emacs can be -- Lisp isn't built in, but then it seems like one of the 6.0 features was that you could script it with Perl or Python, which I am more comfortable using anyway. I won't make comments about BBEdit here as I have no experience with it, but yes I understand that it has a fine reputation in this area. Again, my point is simply that there are several strong options -- you should go with what you like best. > BBEdit is, IMHO, the coders choice for programming in a multiplatform > environment: MacsOS X are clients and Unix are servers... Funnily enough, one of the things I like best about vim/gvim is that it allows the same interface[s - gui & console] on all platforms, including Macs, Linux, Unix, Windows. Supposedly BeOS et al too, but I don't have access to such systems. BBEdit is Mac only, isn't it? It might integrate well with remote systems, but if it can't run on them natively then this isn't as useful to me, personally. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc
