On 07/04/2013 08:24 AM, MRAB wrote: > On 04/07/2013 14:22, Tim Chase wrote: >> On 2013-07-04 05:02, Dave Angel wrote: >> [snip an excellent list of things to look for in an editor]
> It's 2013, yet Unicode support is merely a "nice-to-have"? I agree that this is pretty important. Even if you don't have to deal with Unicode today, the chances are good that you will need to, if only in an occasional way, in the future. One thing not mentioned (sorry if I missed it) that I use more than many of the features that have been mentioned is some form of advanced search/replace. I.e. something that can do regular expression searches and replaces including multiline ones. Another feature I find necessary is very fast start up time since I open an editor hundreds of times a day. Because advanced features and fast startup seem to be mutually exclusive, I often use two editors, a simple but quick starting one like Gedit on Linux or Notepad on Windows for 90% of routine editing and Emacs for the the other 10% when I need to do something more powerful. But as a disclaimer I should add that I do not spend 8+ hours a day doing nothing but programming so YMMV. BTW, the group is currently having a problem both with trolls and with regulars here that bite at every baited hook that drifts past their screen. There seems to nothing to be done other than ignore the obnoxious posts but I am sorry they have infiltrated your discussion. Hopefully this comment won't add to the problem. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
