Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 09/21/07 17:29

Shelly wrote:
> "The Natural Philosopher" <a@b.c> wrote in message
> news:1190388311.7316.0@proxy02.news.clara.net...
>> abhisek wrote:
>>> Use notepad++. It's great. Also dreamweaver is a great app for codin
>>>
>> Dreamwaver is very good for 'artistic' layout of HTML, but its useless
>> when you have to put PHP in there,
>>
>> FWIW I use Smultron on the Mac, and ConTEXT on the PC for writing code in.
>>
>> Both are smart editors that use highlights and color to emphasise the
>> elements of the language they think you are writing in, and both are free.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Linux there is always bloody EMACS, which persists, like Sendmail,
>> because it has always been there..and people get suckered into it..
>
> Much be than vi !!!!
>
>
as long as you don't edit linked system files with it...and end up with
the REAL file called sendmail.cf~ and another one called sendmail.cf in
the wrong directory which now has random replacements of newlines with
CR/LFs, tabs with spaces and lord knows what else, according to teh whim
of whoever set that particular EMACS up.
Spawn of the Devil, Emacs.

At least vi never does anything other that what you tell it to.

I have a theory that te MS WORD and its paperclip was invented by
someone who decided that anything Emacs could fuck up, Word would be
able to fuck up ten times more comprehensively with even less control by
the user..

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