On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 16:24 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:23:17PM -0800, RParr wrote:
> > Johannes Graumann wrote:
> >
> > Actually, I find it somewhat ironic. Most of the programming
> > development IDEs force you to use a less than vi-or-emacs level editing
> > environment and brag about their ability to enhance productivity through
> > visual aids for programming BUT then seem to lack any understanding as
> > to why a documentor or XML editor might want visual aids that enhance
> > productivity.
>
> Most programming languages were designed to be coded by hand as plain
> ASCII text files, so a plain ASCII text editor, with very few add-ons,
> is perfectly adequate.
>
I use Bluefish for editing almost every kind of code, including XML and
HTML. I would say it is a "plain ASCII text editor" with syntax
highlighting and a handy "View in browser" button. It is highly
customizable, too. I don't need more.
> XML was designed to be read and written by automata, not
> humans, and so you need all the tech support you can get.
>
> As a developer, I understand.
>
> As a developer, I also inderstand that XML is a crazily complicated
> specification, probably much more complicated than needed to do its job.
>
> -- hendrik
>
>
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