[ale] Code editors

[J. Reeves Hall]

Byron A Jeff wrote:

> >
> > 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.

That's the beauty of open source software!
It does seem to have a font option under the defaults menu - are you sure you've
adjusted it in the right place, and that you saved the defaults after setting them?

BTW, you and anyone else at gatech, would I be best off getting a dual PII, an
Alpha, or an UltraSPARC? I'm an incoming freshman this August, and I intend to
major in computer science. I have no intention of running Windows except as an
absolute necessity.

-Reeves

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