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From:
Andy Holyer
Date:
March 3, 2005 01:48
Subject:
Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?
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103befe991db8b0097cdac8d41ab107f@holyer.org

On 2 Mar 2005, at 22:15, 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 :-)
>
Personally, because I learned Emacs in 1986, so the control keys are 
hard-coded in my brain :-)


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