[ale] Code editors

Jim Kinney jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Sun Jun 27 00:39:59 EDT 1999


Dual PII, so you can run VMWare when you get stuck running winblows.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, J. Reeves Hall wrote:

> 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
> 
> --
> In a world without fences, why do we need Gates?
> Linux. Because I have better things to do than worry about Y2K.
> 8:01pm up 1 day, 19:58, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 
> 






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