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Re: Searching for an editor...



Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 19:43, Tom wrote:
> > [Sunday 19 October 2003 19:09] John Hasler:
> > 
> > > > To start with, it should be graphical, so vim, emacs and the like
> > > > are no option to me...
> > >
> > > What do you mean by graphical?  Emacs has menus, icons, cut&paste
> > > with the mouse, mouse control of the cursor, etc.  What is it that
> > > people mean by a "graphical" editor?
> > 
> > Well... Built with widgets? :-s 
> > 
> > Somehow, I expected this reply. It's more of a look-n-feel thing. I 
> > don't mind console apps, but for some purposes, I like the "graphical" 
> > approach better. It's not (only) about being able to control things 
> > using the mouse etc.
> > 
> 
> Its probably not what you are looking for, but on this note there is
> xemacs which is much more graphical, and there is also a build of xemacs
> based on gtk (don't know if 1 or 2)

Not to start a flame war, but I don't think XEmacs is more graphical
than Emacs21 (Emacs20, yes, but not Emacs21).



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