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

Phaedrus phaedrus at endless.org
Fri Nov 5 15:09:47 CST 1999


Pablo, 

Bet ya didn't know that there was an editor holy war as well as language
and OS holy wars =)
I myself think 'vi' is the ultimate editor, and that EMACS is a
horrible... milkmans here, gotta go, sorry

-scott


> From: sinck at corp.quepasa.com
> 
> \_ 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
> 




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