Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-25 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Joey Hess wrote: Keith G. Murphy wrote: The problem I see in 5.3 is less subtle. It will mess up this: $whatever =~ /thingiem/; Thinks the 'm/' is the beginning of a match and colorizes it, messing up subsequent lines as well! Doesn't happen here. Package: vim Version:

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-25 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Steve Lamb wrote: Wednesday, May 24, 2000, 1:27:53 PM, Keith wrote: One downside of vim that I just remembered, be careful the need for slamming the ESC key. Windows likes to think it means shut this window NOW! and if you have the confirmation turned off you lose messages in your

Re[3]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, The worst case that I have seen in vim, is the multiline regexp with quotes in it. And it is even worse if I only want to match the beginning quote. See example below: $hello =~ s{ \hello world }{ hello

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Shao Zhang hat gesagt: // Shao Zhang wrote: The worst case that I have seen in vim, is the multiline regexp with quotes in it. And it is even worse if I only want to match the beginning quote. See example below: $hello =~ s{ \hello world

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Frank Barknecht
Frank Barknecht hat gesagt: // Frank Barknecht wrote: Shao Zhang hat gesagt: // Shao Zhang wrote: The worst case that I have seen in vim, is the multiline regexp with quotes in it. And it is even worse if I only want to match the beginning quote. See example below:

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Frank Barknecht wrote: [cut] Hey, no problem here with highlighting that code snippet using VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled Feb 10 2000 17:28:27) (official wichert debian package) Hey, where can I get that? The one from frozen (vim-perl 5.6.070-1, vim compiled May 1), gets

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Steve Lamb wrote: [cut] The /only/ perl construct I know of that doesn't work is something like this: if ($foo =~ /bar\/blam/){ } The problem I see in 5.3 is less subtle. It will mess up this: $whatever =~ /thingiem/; Thinks the 'm/' is the beginning of a match and colorizes it, messing

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Sean wrote: Frank Mehnert wrote: I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? VIM Does VIM include color syntax highlighting on the console? I skimmed

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 2:23:00 PM, Viktor wrote: Does VIM include color syntax highlighting on the console? I skimmed over the VIM-HOWTO, but I could only manage to get color syntax highlighting in gvim. Yes, it does. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink,

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, May 24, 2000, 1:27:53 PM, Keith wrote: One downside of vim that I just remembered, be careful the need for slamming the ESC key. Windows likes to think it means shut this window NOW! and if you have the confirmation turned off you lose messages in your Windows email client.

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Keith G. Murphy wrote: The problem I see in 5.3 is less subtle. It will mess up this: $whatever =~ /thingiem/; Thinks the 'm/' is the beginning of a match and colorizes it, messing up subsequent lines as well! Doesn't happen here. Package: vim Version: 5.6.012-1 -- see shy jo

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Armin Wegner
Use vim. It's hard to learn, but it is worse it. It's fast.

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Lehman
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Armin Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use vim. It's hard to learn, but it is worse it. Interesting typo ;) (I'm writing this as a non-native speaker, no offence intended) -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2000, Philip Lehman wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2000, Armin Wegner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use vim. It's hard to learn, but it is worse it. Interesting typo ;) (I'm writing this as a non-native speaker, no offence intended) -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vim's one of the

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Richard Klinda wrote: Hoi Frank, ALL! Frank I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is Frank syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a Frank small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? fte, vim, jed (emacs ;-)) This leads to a

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Peter Good
I may get flamed for this lol, but i've always used mcedit for perl stuff, pretty perl colour highlighting :) Peter. Keith G. Murphy wrote: Richard Klinda wrote: Hoi Frank, ALL! Frank I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is Frank syntax highlighting in C. Are

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it should be. (As some have said, only perl can parse Perl). Any opinions on which editor has the *best*

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 05/23/00, John S Jacobs Anderson addressed Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?: on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Rademaker
How about fte (fte-console or fte under x)?? Ron Rademaker On Tue, 23 May 2000, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: On 05/23/00, John S Jacobs Anderson addressed Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?: on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This leads to a question

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Michael Stenner
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:39:16AM -0500, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: On 05/23/00, John S Jacobs Anderson addressed Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?: on 5/23/00 9:57 AM, Keith G. Murphy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed

Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 6:57:22 AM, Keith wrote: This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it should be. (As some have said, only perl can parse Perl). Any opinions on which editor has the *best* Perl syntax

Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 7:39:16 AM, Jesse wrote: (X)Emacs with CPerl mode. Even that's not, hmmm, what it should be. Cases that come to mind are certain regular expressions and here documents. Unless I've been using a different Perl mode in Emacs. Not to mention I fail to see how Emacs

Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 11:28 AM, Steve Lamb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to mention I fail to see how Emacs got into the discussion of Simple Text Editor... Lisp interpreters with dillusions of OShood doesn't meet any of those three words. Go back and read the text you snipped. The question got

Perl syntax highlighting in (X)Emacs (was Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
(X)Emacs with CPerl mode. Even that's not, hmmm, what it should be. Cases that come to mind are certain regular expressions and here documents. Unless I've been using a different Perl mode in Emacs. I haven't noticed any issues, but I don't make huge usage of here documents, and I tend

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Frank Barknecht
Steve Lamb hat gesagt: // Steve Lamb wrote: Vim. I've not seen a problem with its highlighting that didn't also improve the readability of my code when I got in the habit of getting it to colorize right. The /only/ perl construct I know of that doesn't work is something like this: if

Re: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 8:41:46 AM, John wrote: Go back and read the text you snipped. The question got changed to text editor with best Perl syntax highlighting, without a concomitant change in subject line. (X)Emacs certainly qualifies, despite it's editing functions being only a subset of

Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 10:21:36 AM, Frank wrote: Hey, no problem here with highlighting that code snippet using VIM - Vi IMproved 5.6 (2000 Jan 16, compiled Feb 10 2000 17:28:27) (official wichert debian package) Hmmm. I guess I'm just set in my ways because... work: [EMAIL

Re: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 1:37 PM, Steve Lamb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, because were are still on simple editor. Again, I fail to see how Emacs qualifies since it isn't simple nor is it a text editor. (Please note that I changed the subject line a couple messages back, to remove the 'simple'.)

Re[2]: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 10:46:21 AM, John wrote: Have you perhaps never used emacs? I have. Saying emacs isn't a text editor is like saying that a Leatherman isn't a pocket knife -- it may be literally true, but is extremely misleading in fact. Hey, don't tell me. Tell all the Emacs

Re: Re[2]: Text editor with good Perl syntax highlighting (was Re: Re[2]: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?)

2000-05-23 Thread John S Jacobs Anderson
on 5/23/00 1:49 PM, Steve Lamb at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 10:46:21 AM, John wrote: Saying emacs isn't a text editor is like saying that a Leatherman isn't a pocket knife -- it may be literally true, but is extremely misleading in fact. Hey, don't tell me. Tell all

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Mats Rynge
Steve Lamb wrote: Not to mention I fail to see how Emacs got into the discussion of Simple Text Editor... Lisp interpreters with dillusions of OShood doesn't meet any of those three words. Fox X I would use Nedit. Very easy to use and great highlighting. Actually, this is the only one I

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-23 Thread Joey Hess
Keith G. Murphy wrote: This leads to a question I've been interested in. I've noticed vim's Perl syntax highlighting to be, hmmm, not always what it should be. (As some have said, only perl can parse Perl). Any opinions on which editor has the *best* Perl syntax highlighting? IMHO, vim. I

Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi, I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? Frank -- Frank Mehnert ## Dept. of Computer Science, Dresden University of Technology, Germany ## ## E-Mail:

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Sean
Frank Mehnert wrote: I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? VIM

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Philip Lehman
On Mon, 22 May 2000, Frank Mehnert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? jed? -- Philip Lehman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Monday, May 22, 2000, 8:36:38 AM, Frank wrote: I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? I'd highly recommend vim. I was die-hard set against any vi or vi

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi Frank, ALL! Frank I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is Frank syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a Frank small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? fte, vim, jed (emacs ;-)) -- ignotus

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

2000-05-22 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 08:59:56PM +0200, Richard Klinda wrote: Hoi Frank, ALL! Frank I'm using joe for many purposes. The only feature I miss is Frank syntax highlighting in C. Are there any hints for such a Frank small and fast editor in Debian with that feature built in? fte,