Text Editors
Leo Mauler
webgiant at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 19 21:36:29 CDT 2005
--- Jason Munro <jason at stdbev.com> wrote:
> On 8:56:49 am 08/18/05 Josh Charles
> <josh.charles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I realize I could be initiating a religious war
> > here, but I'm at my wits end. I've been working
> > in Ruby lately, which has been going really well,
> > but I'm having trouble finding an editor that
> > fits me needs (or wants, I guess).
> >
> > Here's what I'm looking for:
> >
> > Syntax Highlighting
> > Line Numbers
> > File Browser that automatically updates with
> > file system changes while
> > the program is running
> > Some Code Completion (not neccessary, but nice)
> >
> > It seems like these are easy requests, but it's
> > the file browser that keeps killing off editors.
> > I've tried both the EMACS and VI Rudy plugins
> > and found both to be lacking. Not to mention
> > the extremely unintuitive nature of both editors
> > (to my mind at least).
>
> Damn. I can't resist :)
>
> Even though I am a die hard VIM user and have been
> using it for coding for a long time I will not
> argue that it's intuitive by any means :)
Ehhh, once you figure out that <INSERT> mode lets you
do just about anything, and figure out the use of :w
and :q, vi isn't that scary. :)
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