On Oct 15, 2008, at 2:47 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Because of the inescapable central role in our craft of manipulating
text files, essential in this development environment is a
highly-customisable text editor with a broad *and* deep library of
existing customisations, to maximise the amount of work already done
for you when embarking on work in an area that is, to you, new.
It happens that the text editors which meet these criteria are limited
to Emacs and Vim, with a sharp decline in suitability (by these
criteria) beyond those two.
You've never used BBEdit? (Perhaps because of the platform you use --
that's a Mac-only text editor, but it meets your criteria nicely. The
free version "TextWrangler" does a pretty darn good job too, though of
course has some limitations.)
Not that vim and emacs aren't powerful, of course, but I think it goes
too far to say that ONLY those can do the job.
Best,
- Joe
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