On 7/16/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use a good old-fashioned editor called zed, written by an Italian > named Sandro Serrafini who seems to have left no trace for several > years. I have modified it slightly, and I do minimal maintenance to > keep it compiling with new OS releases. Yes, I am familiar with emacs > and vi and nano and gedit and jed; I periodically survey the field of > editors. And yes, emacs will brew your morning coffee, but no, it won't > behave in the sane ways that I like an editor to behave. > > So the suggestion to start using unicode in source code is a nightmare > for me. Ascii is good: simple, universal, easy to work with, easy to > understand. One byte, one character. Unambiguous. Undoubtedly unicode > makes sense for the world in the long run, but for me it is an > unadulterated pain.
I am a huge emacs user, am am familiar with coffee.el though have never used it, but I think putting unicode into the src is a bad idea. Wouldn't this cause potential problems for people working over dumb terminals? JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
