Does anyone know of an editor better than emacs? I'm also wondering how I can change the default encoding to utf-8, on emacs or anything else.
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Anonymous2006-04-17 17:34
ANYTHING is better than emacs. Seriously. What platform are you using? Ultraedit is good if you're using windows.
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Anonymous2006-04-17 18:05
vim
ignore >>2, anyone who thinks ultraedit is good isn't worth listening to.
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Anonymous2006-04-17 18:25
UltraEdit or PSPad, and either have great Unicode support.
ignore >>3, anyone who thinks vim is good isn't worth listening to.
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Anonymous2006-04-17 20:06
a) Anyone who likes UltraEdit really isn't worth listening to
b) Anyone who likes vim has my condolences. (It's not a bad editor, but lacks support for some key features)
c) Emacs is certainly one of the best editors out there. Even vim zealots agree.
d) PSPad looks like just another of the hundreds of freeware editors out there. I've seen enough of them.
The slight mention of vim wins this topic.
Emacs is not bad but it's more of an OS then a text editor.
PSpad == Shit because it's a fucking notepad people
Ultraedit is worse then PSpad.
If you're on windows I sugjest gvim or ConTEXT
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Anonymous2006-04-20 18:46
esr (a God among men) groups Emacs in the same category as operating systems. We must read his immortal words and take them to our hearts or perish.
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Anonymous2006-04-20 19:25
PSpad == Shit because it's a fucking notepad people
you say that as if there's something wrong with a text editor that's based around editing text instead of a text editor that's based on 1970's terminal keyboards or a LISP operating system.
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You're an idiot if you can't read the sarcasm in "We must read his immortal words and take them to our hearts or perish."
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Anonymous2006-04-21 10:36
>>17
If you were speaking of, say, ken or RMS, it would be possible to say that without sarcasm, and some people inexplicably hold ESR in similar esteem to real hackers, so assuming idiocy is unfair.
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Anonymous2006-04-21 11:40
If you were speaking of, say, ken or RMS, it would be possible to say that without sarcasm,
That had damn well better be sarcasm.
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Anonymous2006-04-21 12:51
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>If you were speaking of, say, Gates or Jobs, it would be possible to say that without sarcasm, and some people inexplicably hold ken and RMS in similar esteem to real hackers, so assuming idiocy is unfair.
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Anonymous2006-04-21 20:29
If you were speaking of, say, Larry Ellison or Al Gore, it would be possible to say that without sarcasm, and some people inexplicably hold ken, RMS, ESR or Linus Tarballs in similar esteem to real hackers, so assuming idiocy is unfair.
I like emacs when working on LISP code (via SLIME -- it gives me a boner), and the fact that emacs can format your code's intentation in like 5000 different styles of your choice.
But yeah having to memorize the multitude of key combinations is total balls :(