[REBOL] Re: Script Editor.. I need a script editor; Notepad se
From: geza67:freestart:hu at: 28-Oct-2001 17:15
Hello Hallvard,
> not free, but it costs almost nothing. It's so simple my grandmother could
> use it, yet very powerful and highly customizable.
If you were putting your Grandma to a torture to hack some REBOL (or
any other) coding in TextPad - alas, go on ! :-)))
> On my OpenBSD machine, I use emacs. I find it very illogical to press esc +
> zz to quit an editor. Of course, C-x C-c is far more natural, it comes to
Just my 2(-3..) cents:
1. With zz you won't be out ... zz is moving the cursor line in the
middle of the screen, ZZ will exit.
2. Vi keystrokes are optimised for typing-in speed although you can
put some ideology behind them, e.g. ZZ is "sleeping" (in the cartoon
sense) OR ZZ as being "omega" the very last letter (augmented by its
duplication) in the alphabet, thus the end (OK, I admit, it is twisted
;-) ) . EMACS peruses the shift keys (shift/alt/control) in
double/triple constantly shifted keystrokes to access the multitude of
its functions. It _has_ to do this way, because it is essentially a
stateless (simplistically, always insert mode) editor. Vi(m) on the
other hand is a stateful editor thus simple keystrokes might suffice.
Although I played piano several years - thus I ought to happily push
3-4-5 simultaneous keys with critical precision ;-) , I couldn't grasp
EMACS's key combinations with my fingers.
3. Everybody should use that editor/programming language/OS/office
suite etc.etc. which suits his needs, feels (almost) natural. Both
EMACS and Vi(m) are powerful and great tools, both are admittedly
esoteric - having their own philosophy - but both offer
tremendous functionality and editing speed in relation to ANY
Windows-native (Windows-"level"...) editors to the "engaged".
> Praetera censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
Narrata refero ... in pectore :-)
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Best regards,
Geza mailto:[geza67--freestart--hu]
