Well, when I started my current job I took the plunge and began learning
XEmacs (no religious wars please. :-), which in my book is close enough to
emacs to count. It is available for Win32 and does not require too much
memory. It does CVS, syntax highlighting for any language you'll probably ever
use, and Much Much More. Yes, my head has hurt a lot from all the banging.
Yes, I'm sure I've only scratched the surface of what xemacs can do for me.
But in the long run I think it will be The Right Thing To Do, simply because I
will have learned it, and it really IS extremely powerful. Get the quick
reference guides from http://www.refcards.com/. Find a good book (I don't have
any recommendations). And most of all just use it. You'll it's getting into
your blood when use ^-k & ^-y in a "normal" Win32 text editor.
Matthew Brooks wrote:
>
> I'm interested in hearing what people use as their code editors in their
> respective environments and what their opinions are of them.
>
> When I'm stuck on the MS platform I use CodeWhiz, which is a neat little
> program that formats key words and functions while I type.
> Unfortunately, I haven't figured out a way of getting it to recognize
> $foo, %foo or @foo as something to format so I'll only give it ***1/2
> out of 5 stars.
>
> Under the *nices I generally use pico (and vi when pico is not around),
> in part because I haven't found a code editor that does anything special
> with perl code and also because I'm sometimes connected remotely to the
> machine. Maybe it's time to learn emacs, but my head hurts every time
> I've tried it.
>
> Matthew
>
> #.sig here
> use perl || die "Et tu Brute?!: $!\n";
--
Drew Taylor
Software Engineer
OpenAir.com - Making Business a Breeze!
Open a free account today at www.openair.com
