Re: Searching for an editor...

[Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net>]

Nicos Gollan <gtdev@spearhead.de> wrote:

> On Sunday 19 October 2003 20:24, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > I guess I don't.  Emacs _is_ graphical.  And it has addons to do just
> > about anything.
> 
> Yeah, it's a nice OS, but it's desparately missing a good editor :-P
> Further reference: http://bash.cx/?29888
> 
> Now, don't get me wrong, I used it for a while and liked it; but as
> with Vim, it's a matter of taste and willingness to learn things
> (reflowing text anyone? writing configuration files?).

I think the customize interface addresses both these points fairly well
but not completely.  I agree you can get lost in there... There's a lot.

>                                                        For some people
> that thing is just too much to bear and they don't need 99.9% of the
> functionality.

Yeah, but it's nice to grow into it.
It's a fairly simple editor to use.