Re: [dwm] musca wm

Mate Nagy dixit (2009-05-15, 20:29):

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> no way related to each other. Even if someone writes a really small,
> elegant, suckless editor core, it will be unusable until:
> - it gets encoding handling right (internal, file, terminal)
> - word wrapping (disabled, enabled, soft, hard...)
> - syntax highlighting and autoindent, for C, Python, Lisp...
> - all possible tab behaviors (soft, hard, half,...)
> - autocompletion, ctags integration
> These are just the absolutely necessary basics, and if you implement
> these, you already have a multi-ten-thousand line application.
> Sucklessness goes through the window.
> (Yes, there are people who make do with mcedit, but.. come on.)
>
> I say dwm (for example) is good because it's good, not because it's
> suckless. The sucklessness is certainly part of its goodness, but not

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Very much agreed. As to the lisp part, even emacs cannot properly indent
the loop macro yet :).

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