Re: What do people use for programming eviroments

On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Chris Lee wrote: > > linux, > nedit, > netscape, mozilla > > -linux is fast and stable, great OS > -nedit lacks, nedit locks if I loose my mounted drive connection for even > a second What about vim or (x)emacs? There seems to be a fairly strong nedit crowd, but I like gvim. Emacs is something I've never really used as a primary editor, but has a great diff/merge tool (ediff) and more support for version control systems and things like ctags (etags?). Emacs is geared towards the programmer, but even though vim is still "just an editor" it's a damned good one. There's not much that me and my split-windowed gvim can't do. Either way, both are great editors. BTW, I've been working with vim over a smbmount for about 5 months now and have never had a problem. > -netscape on linux sucks, it crashes every two min, mozilla is even worse > I don't have the problems you have with netscape, but you are right, it does suck. It uses its own GUI toolkit so it looks ugly, and the typeset makes me sick to my stomach. Mozilla and Konqueror make up on the looks department, but tend to be more buggy than Netscape in terms of rendering and JavaScript support. I'd give this sector a year or two to mature before writing it off. In the meantime, you can run Windows inside of VMware and get at IE. Whether or not you like IE, it is still fast overtaking the increasingly nonexistant Netscape market share, and is probably what a majority of people viewing your site will be using. I still think it is important to have both browsers readily available. VMware, last time I used it, was a major pain in the ass in terms of memory and CPU utilization, though. My suggestion would be to get a mid-range (400mhz, 96-128megs of ram) box and put windows 98 or 2000 on it, and do your real work on a *nix box. Keep the windows box next to your *nix one and use it for testing with IE, playing streaming video, etc.. just nothing critical so you can reboot it as needed. > My question here is this, is there a good system for programming out > there? BeOS ? DOS? > > Has anyone got a setup that works, good OS, good editor, good html > viewer. > > Chris Lee > > -- John Donagher Application Engineer Intacct Corp. - Powerful Accounting on the Web 408-395-0989 720 University Ave. Los Gatos CA 95032 www.intacct.com -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org mQGiBDnCZ1oRBACFgkFCV6p3dWic1qm1FLhip5beIyzZSt+ccTDYQQdPZA/t5H+k PZ7ZFBIUrXz/oEqwQwlEKlg8JQqg7hgtcL+xrIJ0BInLeSJG4lvvB551g59Thr7/ OsdxNVxKci775+K+GkdAz4xcULMuB+QE7t665Ri46EAS8ALos5UG6DGmhwCguD0v 1cxwy/KlKr+oi4sWM9caueED/RmjiSD3vmBZQt6PMisVe1AmkEf6cJoemduCSJxu 0eMz/LIeu+CqfpuJH2N/dZ3hRj9xMSHF4l71wKqV99zhm58kDGwG1u3yVzULPDqz 0yL+8nunlkoOUyn3zOnh3Zmz4POFVMZQ5oian3QkLllUwly5JCi5tWULxZ2vOkb0 zzjuA/4jigNxYV4NAyCl+wAbnyzk9/Iz8EHv4/0Ex8ytlcMtvBJKa9HjJxlyIl74 yOILHk3+GSAdM0b3ZmbavpoCpebinOMBhqEVBwCI4VUIAqf86gx+2dKBGxfKPnU4 Xxvqs/BOl/EbeJjyd4uieYndGRaWg+kYXqZ7SxrlFN24fohnd7QgSm9obiBEb25h Z2hlciA8am9obkB3ZWJtZXRhLmNvbT6IVgQTEQIAFgUCOcJnWgQLCgQDAxUDAgMW AgECF4AACgkQIt6tVu6+jd3SHwCgjssFktMXf8NjE9JBR+sJ2gDIsW8An0CFNdFd dU+DJYC6ogYP9AsVfM27uQENBDnCZ2MQBAD8E0qe1gBKjtoRmyiyORtwhOz/2XZE mqiZN2NouAUWRRZd4dHggFAA1jUsp2MVIZZQyY9ajNVy3Oaxj5kYz8LR5GItxxcD jC8RFXKM40ZfTJeR7fH6eJa689w+le71Tt4ALyN4xcjSWuksr8795AhHFjonDi8D rgGIq6GtWvi/KwADBgQAmeBbcjPzhqR2M8TdvEyNfVTQSSp/RNoTjNNWpHui8V0p kiQ49tbsqeMjXGToGgMugfmrX77JidXyuVjgYjT9xUdaaA25qKAR75M9izDliT7Y h5L+QZTAw0/5X9go7XK3WI3LYfFrp4TP0veXgSWxDqccqsRzWKW7IoXsliTCbVqI RgQYEQIABgUCOcJnYwAKCRAi3q1W7r6N3YIcAKCkJMTPLu6tOPnXPl2s3xmnSawy BACeOx83WlBhVScYWo+BUzntJ6ks4T0= =OkJU -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----