Phoenix.pm: Mac/Windows -> Unix line endings

Douglas E. Miles doug.miles at bpxinternet.com
Fri Nov 5 15:15:33 CST 1999


sinck at corp.quepasa.com wrote:
> 
> \_ EditPlus is great for coding, at least I've found it to be. The color
> \_ coding templates, choose your own colors for different types of quoting,
> \_ variables, on and on. Unlimited "undo"... Also you get this nice panel of
> \_ all your open scripts.
> 
> emacs will do all of the same things (differently) and runs on every
> market-important platform (and some that aren't).  One interface makes
> my life simpler.
> 
> *cough* **not* looking at vi, cat > foo, notepad, wordpad* *cough*
> 
> :-)
> 
> If someone wants emacs/perl pointers, lemme know.  My setting will
> probably grate, but I'd be happy to share.  FWIW, The latest cperl
> mode has a 'regex beautify' fxn that does tend to make the regexs
> prettier without altering the semantics (much -- it's still betaware).
> 
> David

I might take you up on that someday.  I use vim all the time, but have
wanted to learn emacs.  I just haven't taken the time.  Every time I
want to edit a file, I just want to edit, not learn a new editor. :)  Oh
well, someday...

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