There's no such thing as everybody's editor. Emacs is a lifestyle, so if you're looking for simpler editors there are lots of choices.
The editor e3 may be have the lowest size per function at about 10K, so if your want to keep size down and still have a quite functional editor you should try that for basic script editing. You can run e3 in the nedit mode. Nedit under X is a good all around text editor and does have built in language support. I prefer to have my `intergrated development environment' built on my own scripts and makefiles, so nedit suits that style. And then there are pico/nano. In the beginning there is probably vi. Use it just long enough to get e3 or nano onboard. Use them if you don't have X, otherwise use nedit. If you want to start emacs as part of you log on screen and never want to exit until you log out it's possible. And if the boss is listening to all the keyboarding you're doing using emacs so much the better. -- Sincerely, David Smead http://www.amplepower.com. On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Holger Rauch wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Wendell Cochran wrote: > > > [...] > > Flaming vi vs emacs is for script kiddies. > > There *are* arguments for Emacs: > > - You don't have to think about which mode you are currently in, just hack > your stuff in there (something which is rather difficult with vi since you > need to be careful whether you are in command mode or in insert or > whatever mode). > > - vi does not have its own programming language so it can't be customized > as much as emacs (ok, you can define new keyboards macros and syntax > highlighting in vi, but that's it). With Emacs, you can have specialized > development environments for Java (JDEE) and LaTeX (AucTeX, yaTeX), just > to mention a few. > > The only *real* arguments against Emacs is that it uses a lot of memory > and that some of the keybindings may be a bit hard to get used to in the > beginning (under X, you can just conveniently use the menu to learn these > keybindings). > > So, there is no need to flame. I think it's justified to come up with good > arguments on a mailing list. > > Greetings, > > Holger > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
