On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > => several modes like vi ? or like EMACS ? or an hybrid ? or like >> > another editor ? vile ? nano ? (maybe the troll-able part) >> >> I've always hated mode editors, I don't use vi because I end up >> constantly typing in command mode and getting myself in to trouble. > > You'll never come to consensus on this. My experience is that the > emacs/vi/acme/whatever factorisation of the people is not in any way > equivalent to any other preference factorisation (e.g. console vs GUI, > suckmore vs suckless, jazz/pop/rock, or whatever). There must be a way to > customize this.
Trying to be everything for everyone is the best recipe for failure. Customization is the root of all evil. >> > => ncurses ? >> > => strictly nothing ? >> > => a limited number of LOC ? >> > => others libs ? >> Ncurses is pretty sucky, so I vote it not to be a console application. > > X sucks even more .... I think, creating documents should be separate from > viewing documents. My vote goes for console. At least X is not based on emulating the behavior of hardware that was already obsolete forty years ago. uriel
