On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:21:09PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-16, Pigeon penned: > > I hate both of 'em. If all I've got is the "standard tools", I use ed. > > I find it *much* less painful than using vi. Or emacs. Seriously. > > > What's your preferred choice? My first exposure to a full-screen editor other than vi or emacs was the Borland Turbo C 1.0 IDE. It wasn't modal, and the cursor keys worked. It was more or less love at first keystroke. (For those who haven't come across it: DOS's EDIT.COM appears to have based its UI on Borland's IDEs.) So I have a liking for things that work more or less the same way. I'm using jed in a text console to write this, as I do for most jobs that only involve working on one or two files at a time; the default Debian customisation of it is fairly Borlandesque. For larger jobs, I like RHIDE, which is a clone of the Borland IDE. Unfortunately, it was originally written for DOS / DJGPP, and the Linux port is not all it could be; in particular it's necessary to frog about with the character set to get the line drawing characters etc. to display properly. Also it seems unlikely that it will become part of Debian due I think to Free-ness issues. However there is a woody .deb available from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/rhide/rhide_1.5-1_i386.deb . -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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