On 02/03/2005 @ 22:25 GMT, Wiggins d'Anconia, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: >John Delacour wrote:
>> I'd love to hear a convincing explanation from someone why anyone >>would >> use such tools in preference to TextWrangler, BBEdit or Affrus. I can >> imagine they'd make it a chore to write code in us-ascii and either a >> nightmare or an impossibility to deal with non-ascii, but maybe that's >> because I'm just an unreformed Mac user :-) >They aren't free (well BBedit and Affrus), they aren't cross platform >(why learn a different editor for each platform), and they require lots >of clicky. > >I have never logged into a system where I couldn't use vi. (well maybe a >windows box, but it didn't take long to install gvim or cygwin.) In the case in point though he's using OS X so why not use the best tools for the platform you're on? If one day he gets stuck on Atari he'll have to learn vim/emacs/whatever. No point suffering til then :-) Cheers, Regards, Phil. -- Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day Show a man grep and you'll never see him again