in reply to (ichimunki) Re: Religious Matters and Text Editing
in thread QuickPerl: a step up from -e

Let me know for sure when you look at it, thanks.

A compelling feature of the editor I use is the symbol parsing. For C++, it blows away anything else I've tried in more than 10 years. It gives real-time cross referencing and context information on the body of source, without having to compile it first (so it's great for exploring someone else's code).

The macro ability is rather weak, but it was enough to customize the keys a bit. If you look at that link, the pane on the left shows all the functions, variables, and whatnot in the file. The thing at the bottom tells you things based on what's under the cursor, looking at all your source.

—John

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by ichimunki (Priest) on Jul 05, 2001 at 19:14 UTC
    The DOS shell mode works pretty much as advertised (i.e. seems to be a DOS version of the Unix shell mode), which means you get full cut-and-paste, simple command replay, the ability to do searches (regex searches no less) on sessions/buffers, tab-completion, and probably a few other things. I haven't used shell mode on Unix much myself-- finding it easier to open xterms in separate windows, one for the editor, one for the CLI.

    I should also point out that the directory editor mode in emacs is also pretty much unchanged in the DOS/Windows port-- which may not be as pretty as the Windows explorer, but offers all the same features as the unix version-- which I've heard includes multifile search & replace and other handy things like that.

    Again, I myself am not a power-emacs-user yet, just a wide-eyed convert. Now what I'd really like to see is a stripped down (no email, news-reader, Eliza games-- yes, the editor does Eliza), all-Perl version of emacs running in Tk. :)
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