At 9:55 PM -0400 4/14/02, 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 has both syntax editing and (in the latest versions) auto-indent. More critically for me it has mixed-language syntax editing (e.g. I do a lot of Embperl work, vim highlights both the HTML and the embedded Perl correctly). I looked into doing that in BBEdit, but there's no way to combine modes. You'd have to write a C library that did all of the HTML highlighting (all over again, from scratch), and all the the Perl highlighting. If BBEdit had an interpreted extension language for the syntax editing I might switch, but then again, I don't like doing a lot of editing in the mouse, and my fingers can't take Emacs meta-commands. -- Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC http://consulting.somewhere.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
