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

On 14 September 2011 13:18, Tim Streater <tim@clothears.org.uk> wrote: > 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 > TECO - OUCH. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY : bit.ly/lFnVea