[plug] Religious debate - editor wars

[Quintin Lette]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 10:55 am, Richard Meyer wrote:
> 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

I can't imagine spending US$200 on an editor.. I'd say vi would win straight 
out in that comparison... *I think vim is all I'd ever need anyway and the 
being free (and included in my favourite distro - debian)  helps*

Just my 2c
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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
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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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> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:58:43AM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > 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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