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.
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