Quanta is my favorite, but kate is quickly becoming my favorite for
everything. I like the built in docs for quanta quite a bit. It's handy for
php as well.
nathan
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 03:46 pm, Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> I understand that since they are different they would have general purpose
> proponents, but what about for a specific use, such as writing web pages?
> What would be their major advantages and disadvantages?
> I'm also considering Quanta+.
>
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 03:19 pm, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> > Mark> It's interesting that you should mention emacs.
> > Mark> I just started learning emacs while wondering
> > Mark> if I should invest my time in vim instead. I
> > Mark> have a book, "GNU Emacs" 2nd ed. Oreilly 1996,
> > Mark> based on Version 19.30 where the author
> > Mark> describes the advances and differences since
> > Mark> the book's first edition based on Version 18.
> > Mark> Here we are at Version 21 suggesting I should
> > Mark> probably toss the book and use the online and
> > Mark> help tutorials.
> >
> > No one needs a book to learn Emacs, which is by nature
> > self-documenting. The tutorial is a fine place to learn
> > the basics, followed by the Info manual. Once you learn
> > how to find the information you need, which is always a
> > couple of keystrokes away, you don't need a book.
> >
> > I don't get involved in Emacs versus Vim discussions
> > because they are not the same thing. No person who does
> > not know vi and its extensions upside down and
> > backwards can legitimately claim to know Unix. I've
> > known it since 1983. However, I've used Emacs since
> > 1987, and since about 1991, XEmacs, for 99.5% of
> > everything I do on any Unix machine it is available on.
> >
> > The bottom line is you'd better learn them both. In the
> > Unix/Linux classes I teach at UAT, I teach only vi
> > (vim) in the first semester, but have a brief lab in
> > Emacs (GNU) in the second semester.
>
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