On Wednesday 04 January 2017 12:10, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 03Jan2017 12:57, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: >>I dislike the Unix-style Vim/Emacs text editors, I prefer a traditional >>GUI-based editor. So my "IDE" is: >>- Firefox, for doing searches and looking up documentation; >>- an GUI programmer's editor, preferably one with a tab-based >> interface, such as geany or kate; >>- a tab-based terminal. > > "traditional GUI-based editor" > > For those of us who spent a lot of our earlier time on terminals (actual > physical terminals) we consider GUIs "new fangled". > > Just narking, > Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
Heh, GUI editors have been around since at least 1984, if not older, which makes them older than half the programmers in the world. I'm not sure what an *un*traditional GUI-based editor would look like. Maybe one that used a ribbon-based interface, like MS Office? Or perhaps Leo? http://leoeditor.com/ [My resolution for 2017: stop talking about Leo and actually download the damn thing and try it out.] -- Steven "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." - Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
