[plug] Religious debate - editor wars

[indy at THE-TECH.MIT.EDU]

They appear to have a trial version available from
the link on this page 

http://www.slickedit.com/purchase/pu_purchinfo.php

It's 30 days and wants your MAC addy, but it's probably
the best way to see if it does what you need.

Incidentally, what is it you find lacking in the usual
crop of editors?


Indy




On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 10:55:58AM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
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> Does anybody who has used it, think it is worth the price? +- US$200?
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> 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.   :)
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> 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.
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> Editor ---> Code tool -> IDE
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>          --> Prose tool > (Integrated writing environment?)
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> seems to be how it is and slickedit is in the code tool middle there.
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> If you code a lot in a language it has features for, it's probably
> worth a try.
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> 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.
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> Indy
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> 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).  ;)
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> > RichardM
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> --
> Indranath Neogy
> <indy at the-tech.mit.edu>
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Indranath Neogy
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