[plug] Religious debate - editor wars

[Richard Meyer]

Does anybody who has used it, think it is worth the price? +- US$200?

You can buy a *l-o-o-o-t* of copies of vi for that price, even if you burn
each one to its own DVD.   :)

Thanks
RichardM



                                                                                                                                    
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I've only used slickedit a little, a long time ago.
Back then it was projecting to be more of a development tool
than merely an editor. (I guess most editors do, but since I
write more prose than code, I try to make the distinction.)
Looking at the fancy web pages, I'd say it's reached it's goals
of back then.

Editor ---> Code tool -> IDE
        \
         --> Prose tool > (Integrated writing environment?)

seems to be how it is and slickedit is in the code tool middle there.

If you code a lot in a language it has features for, it's probably
worth a try.

I'd be curious if anyone has a favourite mouse centric editor,
as so far I haven't found one for Linux that I'm happy with.


Indy


On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:58:43AM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
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> Hi People,
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> Yesterday I was talking to a colleague about editors and he mentioned
> Slickedit. He personally believed that it was the best editor available -
> bar none. Is anybody using it? If not, what editors do people recommend
> (apart from vim/elvis/vi and emacs).  ;)
>
> RichardM

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