[ale] Code editors

[Byron A Jeff]

> 
> NEdit does a good job of syntax highlighting and is otherwise a nice editor to
> work with.

It only has a quirk or two that drives me completely nuts. The first is that
it doesn't save font preferences. While you can change the font in one
window, if you open up another, it comes up in the default font. The other
is that it has the bad habit of resetting the file permissions on save, 
striping any exec bits that are set. This means that for shell and perl scripts
that you have to reset the exec file permissions every time you save.

Solve these two problems and I find it a capable editor. 

BAJ
> 
> -Reeves
> 
> Robert Butera wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Dave Brooks wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, I'm making a futile attempt at writing a Tcl/Tk interface to the
> > > pilot-link package (and, consequently, teaching myself tcl/tk as I go
> > > along).  Question is, does anyone know of any sort of editor that will
> > > color-code things like { ( [ if..else etc etc?  The code is getting to
> > > the point where it's sort of tedious to look at ;)
> >
> > Try the hilit19.el package under emacs.  I haven't tried it with Tcl/Tk,
> > but it does a really nice job with Perl and C code.  I think that
> > it is part of the "Standard" emacs installation - you just need to
> > add a few lines to your .emacs file to load on startup (these instructions
> > are typically in the comments in the header to hilit19.el, otherwise
> > email me and I will send you the relevant lines from my .emacs file)
> >
> > --
> > Robert Butera, Assistant Professor              robert.butera at ece.gatech.edu
> > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering           phone:  404-894-2935
> > Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA        FAX:    404-894-5935
> 
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