Benjamin Pflugmann wrote:
Ok, but how do you turn on number lines insise Emacs. If I've coding in Java and the compiler tells me I've got an OutOfBoundsException on line 4893 I don't want to have to count 1,2,3... from the top if the page, ya know? ;)On Tue 2003-02-04 at 21:21:06 -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [... cool overview about available editors ...]If I am on a desktop and I need a quick edit, I usually grab for kedit, but any heavy work is emacs unless it is a sudoers file in which case a special variant of vi called visudo is absolutely the only way to do it without adding a session of hair-pulling getting things to work as you planned afterward.Well, just a clarification: visudo is not an editor, but "only" the Right Way to call an editor for the /etc/sudoers file. visudo will call anything you put in your EDITOR environment variable. So it will gladly use emacs, if you want it to (I assume, you know that civilme, but it was ambigous, IMHO). Now my personal opinion about editor choice: learn the most basic vi keystrokes - one day you will be glad to know how to edit a line and save it using vi, believe me. Although both emacs and vi (and variants) are very commonplace on UNIX, if only one editor is installed (e.g. on a minimal server), it will be vi. Aside from that, I prefer emacs for almost everything (startup speed and size are not really an argument with even yesterday's hardware). And it can do anything you want (news & mail reading, shells, remote editing, file browsing, being a full IDE, some games, web browsing with(!) images... you name it). But both, emacs and vi, will take some time to learn. And setting them up to do everything the way you prefer will take some time and involves config files in a way or another. This only pays of, if you need to use them regularly (I do). If you want something with a short learning curve, nedit, kedit and friends are more suitable, but will show their limits somewhen. Bye, Benjamin.
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