On Saturday 23 August 2014 06:17:24 alister did opine And Gene did reply: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 18:19:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Rob Gaddi wrote: > >> Emacs and vim both have huge learning curves that I've decided > >> aren't worth climbing. > > > > In my opinion, they are designed for people willing and able to > > commit to memory dozens, even hundreds, of obscure key sequences to > > get the simplest thing done. They are not designed for easy > > exploration of the application: you either know the command that you > > want, or you're stuck. > > > > Besides, the standard text editor is ed: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html > > > >> Notepad++ is an excellent GUI text editor for Windows. > >> Geany is nearly as good, and runs on anything. > > > > I have never used Notepad++, but I can give Geany good reviews. It's > > nearly as good as kate in KDE 3, and much better than kate in KDE 4. > > I'll give Geany another thumbs up
I would too, but for the code carving I do, gedit has syntax highlighters for calling attention to GCode formatting mistakes, Geany doesn't. It does look like a capable editor, but it just doesn't fit my instant needs. > it is quite well featured but still light weight (i tend to do my > personal work on a netbook so I don't have much in the way of > resources) > > for the original problem Shift & Cursor UP/Down to highlight the block > then Ctrl-I to indent or Ctrl-u to unindent. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
