Cool Code Editor

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Re: Cool Code Editor by perrin (Chancellor) on Nov 07, 2001 at 08:08 UTC
Not to burst your bubble, but that's a pretty run-of-the-mill feature. Emacs has done that forever, and most of the pro editors on Windows (I've been trying out Visual Slick Edit) seem to do it too. Emacs can actually edit files over scp/ssh. Now that's a cool feature!	[reply]
Re: Re: Cool Code Editor by Purdy (Hermit) on Nov 07, 2001 at 15:52 UTC
I've heard lots of cool things about emacs, but I just haven't forced myself to give it a good try, especially with all of those Ctrl-? commands. Guess once you've learned one key binding (vi), you become biased towards it. Now that I know about SSH, I may have to give it another shot.	[reply]
Re (3): Cool Code Editor by sevensven (Pilgrim) on Nov 07, 2001 at 16:20 UTC
Well, you can use vi bindings in emacs, but then again, vim6 has the hability to use scp/ssh. Just do a `vim rcp://machine/path` and happy viming :-) `:help netrw` gets you into the pertinent help page Peace, no editor flamewar wanted :-)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Cool Code Editor by FoxtrotUniform (Prior) on Nov 07, 2001 at 21:53 UTC
The "cool editor feature" that has most impressed me lately is vim 6's block-based text folding. Put a descriptive comment at the top of each block, fold down a level or two, and it's really easy to get a quick overview of how a program is structured. (I'd be surprised if something similar hasn't been written for emacs. No editor holy wars please!) `-- :wq`	[reply]
Re: Re: Cool Code Editor by clemburg (Curate) on Nov 07, 2001 at 23:17 UTC
See Emacs outline mode for Perl. Christian Lemburg Brainbench MVP for Perl http://www.brainbench.com	[reply]
Slick, baby! by Rex(Wrecks) (Curate) on Nov 07, 2001 at 23:34 UTC
Visual Slick Edit all the way! I use it on all platforms, and now that I can run it in native mode on FreeBSD (instead of Linux compat mode) I like it even more. One of the only really good, full featured editors I have found that runs on all the platforms I need. The licence is a source of badness and goodness however. Badness: only 1 OS type per licence. Goodness: Licence is good for 1 user, not 1 machine. You can have it installed on as many machines as you wish as long as only one person uses it! "Nothing is sure but death and taxes" I say combine the two and its death to all taxes!	[reply]