Andrew Coppin writes: > > > Personally, I really hate text-mode editors. (I won't even go into how > > > many times I've had to reboot Linux just to get *out* of Vi!) > > > > 'Z Z' is the command to quit vi, right? > > > > Sometimes. Sometimes it just types "zz" in the document. It depends on > the alignment of the planets.
Ah, then you're in the wrong mode. Press ESC first. > It's a text-mode editor. With graphical support. > quod erat demonstrandum. Please don't be so quick to jump to conclusions like that. > Since it only operates in text-mode, it cannot possibly provide things > like clickable fold points, http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategoryOutline I'm not sure any of those supply _clickable_ points, but there's no reason in principle it couldn't be done. Emacs users just feel that using the keyboard is quicker. > or a side-bar containing a bunch of icons representing the objects in the > current file, Speedbar: http://cedet.sourceforge.net/speedbar.shtml http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/SpeedBar http://cedet.sourceforge.net/speedbar-multi-2.jpg -- screenshot http://jdee.sunsite.dk/jdedoc/html/jde-ug/images/speedbar1.gif -- screenshot Not sure about integration with haskell-mode, but there's no reason this couldn't be done in Emacs. > or a spell checker, Flyspell: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/FlySpell http://prog.vub.ac.be/~cderoove/geekery/emacslatex/flyspell_menu.png -- screenshot > or an interactive debugger, As previously mentioned, debugging in Haskell hasn't really reached maturity yet, but there's an Emacs interface to gdb: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GdbMode http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob/gdb-ui.png -- screenshot > or any of those other features that require a GUI. Perhaps you ought to revise your opinions on what constitutes a GUI. (By the way, all those screenshots above show Emacs with horrible fonts that haven't been anti-aliased. By checking out the unicode-2 branch of Emacs, which will be merged into the trunk before Emacs 23, you can easily get XFT support. I wouldn't live without it.) -- -David House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
