[ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 10/22/2013 09:13 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> Emacs.  No one should be without an editor which includes in the
> standard distribution a Towers of Hanoi simulation, an adventure game,
> and an ELIZA simulation. 
>
> That said, vi(1) is an Essential Life Skill, and I can get around in
> it well enough not to embarrass myself.

I swore I wouldn't jump in on this thread... oh, well.

Agreed.

I use both emacs and vi, though my preference is emacs.  I don't use the
LISP functionality anywhere near as much as Dave does, and when I need
complex things done in LISP in Emacs, it's quicker for me to ask him and
move on to the next thing than to try to figure it all out.

Personally, had I the time to do so, I'd create an Emacs like editor
where the script component is modular.  Imagine LISP, Python and
JavaScript all being "first-class" in the editor macro world, even being
able to call each other's routines and so forth.  I'd probably be a lot
happier with either Python or JS there, compared to LISP.

But, emacs is nice and 90% of what I need to do with it has keybindings
by default or I have bound myself.  :-)

    --- Mike

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