Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 5:43:55 AM, Oleg wrote:
> Why do carpenters need other tools than bench axe? Underlying concept
> to most of those is the same: wood.
A bench axe cannot change configuration to suit the task at hand. A
program can be configured for the task at hand. Apples and oranges, try
again.
> When programming I use language-specific templates I don't need to know of
> when I am editing news or mail or writing poerty.
Those templates can be added in.
> I also need project management and so on.
The project management environment can call the editor in question.
> When I write a book I will need heavy word processing including
> cross-references and so on.
Which is possible. I've seen books written in just VI. OTOH, you'll note
I didn't put word processing into my list because I do know that is a
different task than just editing ASCII text.
> I don't need bloated do-everything editor where I will have to use
> Ctrl-Alt-Shift combinations alot because simple keys are occupied by
> functions which I will never need for my current task.
Funny, vim uses no CNTL-ALT-SHIFT combonations. I also don't consider it
bloated compared to reimplementing the same basic editor 20 times.
SL>> Quick templates are nothing more than imported text with replacement of
SL>> macros. That can be achieved several different ways.
> How?
What do you mean "how?" Give me an example. One of mine is I have a
template which puts in the date/time. I can write a perl script to replace a
macro to do that. Big whoop.
> Never, because it is not underlying data defines the way people handle it
> but the purpose of editing. Just discussed this regarding mail and news
> management here.
Right, that is why the editor changes modes to suit the needs of the task
at hand. Why should I have to learn 20 different keystrokes just do delete a
line? Is that not common to all of those tasks?
> BTW, what is scoring?
Already answered.
> And you didn't answer the main my question: how will TB! know that I'm
> done with editing new message with my favorite editor if I have three
> more files open with it and don't want to close it?
Good question, one that I'm not prepared to answer since I don't
particularly care for such beasts considering there is very little need for
them in either the unix or windows environments. Because of this I've never
investigated alternatives to just saving the bloody file and exiting.
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