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From:
Wiggins d'Anconia
Date:
March 2, 2005 14:21
Subject:
Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?
Message ID:
42263D57.6030209@danconia.org
John Delacour wrote:
> At 9:45 pm +0000 2/3/05, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> 
>> I'm thinking that if he's not comfortable with pico maybe emacs is not 
>> the best idea...
> 
> 
> I'd love to hear a convincing explanation from someone why anyone would 
> use such tools in preference to TextWrangler, BBEdit or Affrus. I can 
> imagine they'd make it a chore to write code in us-ascii and either a 
> nightmare or an impossibility to deal with non-ascii, but maybe that's 
> because I'm just an unreformed Mac user :-)
> 
> JD
> 
> 

They aren't free (well BBedit and Affrus), they aren't cross platform 
(why learn a different editor for each platform), and they require lots 
of clicky.

I have never logged into a system where I couldn't use vi. (well maybe a 
windows box, but it didn't take long to install gvim or cygwin.)

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