Phoenix.pm: Mac/Windows -> Unix line endings
Pablo Velasquez
pablo at dosomething.org
Fri Nov 5 17:29:12 CST 1999
Hi,
I just downloaded VI. Hmmm. I think I'll stick with EditPlus. I love the
UNIX way and all for servers, but I like the mouse, I'm sorry, that's just
how it works for me. And don't even get me started on StarOffice... just
kidding...
I actually didn't know there was a holy war about editors... glad I brought
it up :)
-Pablo
At 04:09 PM 11/5/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>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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