Re: [dev] Thanks for your anwsers and how do you want your text editor ?

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:42 AM, <stanio_AT_cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> > => several modes like vi ? or like EMACS ? or an hybrid ? or like
>> > another editor ? vile ? nano ? (maybe the troll-able part)
>>
>> I've always hated mode editors, I don't use vi because I end up
>> constantly typing in command mode and getting myself in to trouble.
>
> You'll never come to consensus on this.  My experience is that the
> emacs/vi/acme/whatever factorisation of the people is not in any way
> equivalent to any other preference factorisation (e.g. console vs GUI,
> suckmore vs suckless, jazz/pop/rock, or whatever). There must be a way to
> customize this.

Trying to be everything for everyone is the best recipe for failure.
Customization is the root of all evil.

>> > => ncurses ?
>> > => strictly nothing ?
>> > => a limited number of LOC ?
>> > => others libs ?
>> Ncurses is pretty sucky, so I vote it not to be a console application.
>
> X sucks even more .... I think, creating documents should be separate from
> viewing documents. My vote goes for console.

At least X is not based on emulating the behavior of hardware that was
already obsolete forty years ago.

uriel
Received on Thu Sep 24 2009 - 12:43:41 UTC