On Aug 22, 2023, at 20:32, Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.com.pl> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
I remember using ed. Via a 2400bps modem :-)
Aha. Ed and vi are still being praised by various people for their
ability to use such a narrow bandwith.
I'm told the thing with emacs is that, if you like it, it can end up being
almost your whole development environment, so you feel lost without it.
Sure, I agree. But this same thing can be told about any kind of tool
which does its jobs so well that one does not want to search for
anything better. Not perfect, just good enough. Part of this is
avoiding "avalanche" type of changes to the way a tool works. Changes
are introduced, allright, but usually they are acceptable to me. In
some cases, I had to include an ELisp snippet into my dot-emacs.
I suspect that I would be able to transplant old version of some code
I rely upon into newer emacs, but this might prove to be troublesome.
BTW, emacs is not very good with big files. I have now one such ~30
megabyte text file, with Unicode and some stuff describing a structure
of it - it contains my notes, calendar things, but in essence it is
just a magnafied bookmarks file. It loads quite fast, but not
blazingly fast - about five seconds.
Emacs has a hex viewer too. I use it rarely, because I prefer
"hexdump -C <file | less"
BTW2, emacs is the only editor I know about that has built in
psychiatric help. And no, this is not one of those Lady Gaga
jokes. Try "M-x doctor".
I ended up writing my own editor twice (once for TSO and 3278, again for
Windoze). Both can run without line numbers and use F-keys to get things
done, mostly matching the keys I used with the ISPF editor to insert,
delete, split and join lines etc.
U-hum. I never felt such inclination (except once when I was very very
young). Learning the tool and using it well enough, seems like
attanaible goal for me :-).
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Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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