On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 18:45:54 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:35 PM, alister > <alister.nospam.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> if edlin is your only option then it would be better to spend you time >> writhing your own text editor! > > Heh! > > Considering how easy it is to deploy a multi-line edit widget in any GUI > toolkit, it shouldn't be too hard to write a GUI text editor. Now, > writing a *good* GUI text editor, that's a bit harder. And of course, > writing a text/console text editor, that's also less simple. But I put > it to you: How do you write your editor up to the point where you can > use it to write your editor? We have a bootstrapping problem! > > ChrisA
fortunately i have a proper operating system now so I don't have have to use edlin. in the unlikely event that a reasonably featured editor is not available I can always use cat :-) -- Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
