On 02/03/2005 @ 22:39 GMT, David Cantrell, [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
>
>You imagine wrong. There's a reason that emacs and vi have been popular
>for so many years, and since long before OS X was even thought of.
[...]
I sense the perennial 'when I was a lad and that's all we had' hypothesis
coming up but was this the reason for their popularity?
If so it's kind of lame seeing as we know have alternatives that work very well
and more intuitively on their given platform (i.e. OS X)
Cheers,
Regards,
Phil.
