Text Editor for Linux 3407
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 at 13:06 GMT, Douglas O'Neal
Your mindset is getting the best of you. I want to get work done, and could care less about ideology. (X)Emacs is the best tool...
Absolutely. But having more features does not make an editor harder to learn and use if that's all you want to do. No matter which editor you use, you need to learn the command to save a document.
To use emacs (for example), you load it, start typing, and press if you cannot remember that, use the menu.
Why? That's not the job of a text editor. ;)
But, if I want to 'grep' for a string in a file I am already editing, I don't want to switch to a shell and use grep; I use C-s.
If I want to find anagrams of a word in the file I'm editing, I don't want to go to a shell and type in the command, I want to press M-a and have the answer in a window.
Agreed. But when I want to find those files and do more editing than can be done with a single command, it helps to have them load into my text editor.
Why would I want to learn to use a computer when I have a typewriter?
That *is* the benefit to using (X)Emacs. The fact that anyone doesn't make use of any given facility is *not* a detriment. It...
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