Re: Re: [PHP] What would you like to see in most in a text editor?

On 14 Sep 2011 at 12:40, Richard Quadling <rquadling@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 September 2011 01:23, tamouse mailing lists > <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> >> wrote: >>> I'm a big fan of editors that work in the terminal. >> >> You'll get my emacs when you pry it out of my cold dead hands. > > Pah! You and your full screen editor. > > EDLIN is the way to go. Is that more or less terse than TECO? Back in 1989 when I was at SLAC, they were just getting into unix, and debates were raging about which editor to standardise on and teach people (emacs, vi, jove, etc). Because this wasn't settled, I started using notepad (and later, dxnotepad) and got on with coding. Six months later, the debates were still raging. I then had an epiphany: I'd been using notepad for six moths & got work done. It took me 5 minutes to find out how to use it. I didn't need teaching about it or to have a manual. So IMO, emacs, vi, and all their ilk belong in the dustbin of history. -- Cheers -- Tim