mandrake editting-mode

[Kevin O'Connor]

Hows 'bout Notepad under Win4Lin ???

Kevin Buettner wrote:
> 
> On Dec 1, 11:35am, der.hans wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to learn emacs via the command line, so don't need vi mode
> > everywhere, but there are a couple of machines where I need to really be
> > able to get work done, hence need an editting mode that I'm quite
> > proficient in.
> 
> I don't want to start an editor war here, but here are some suggestions
> for vi users who don't necessarily want to change their editing habits,
> but would still like to use a "better" editor.
> 
>  - Don't use ``vi'', use one of the vi clones.
> 
>  - On Linux, this is easy since many distributions ship ``vim'' as
>    ``vi''.  ``vim'' is a pretty good editor, but...
> 
>  - I prefer ``xvile'' (or ``vile'' when I can't run ``xvile'' for
>    some reason).  If you have a complete Red Hat distribution, vile
>    is on the "Power Tools" CD.  (I just learned this recently.) But I
>    never get it from there; instead I always build it myself.
> 
>    You can get the source distribution for [x]vile from
>    ftp://dickey.his.com/vile.  On linux, here is my preferred
>    configuration line for ``xvile'':
> 
>     ./configure --with-screen=x11 --with-perl --with-builtin-filters
> 
>    After this, you do the usual "make; make install".
> 
>    [x]vile can do syntax coloring, but you need to enable this feature
>    in your startup script (.vilerc).  I'll send my .vilerc file to
>    anyone who's interested.
> 
>    As you might guess from my preferred configuration line, vile can
>    be built to use Perl as an extension language.  (If you don't
>    configure it this way, vile still has its macro language that
>    it inherited from micro-emacs.)  Having Perl as an extension
>    language means that it is possible to extend the basic editor
>    in a number of interesting ways.  E.g, I've written code which
>    allows you to run a shell in one of vile's "windows" and have
>    implemented enough vt100 terminal emulation (all in Perl) to be
>    able to run programs like vi and top in the editor.  (And yes,
>    you can still edit text in other buffers at the same time.)
> 
>  - Finally, if you really want to use emacs for some reason (and
>    there are many good reasons for using emacs), there are several
>    modes which give you good vi emulation.  The last time I checked,
>    viper mode looked pretty good.
> 
> Again, I don't wish to start an editor war here.
> 
> I've considered "converting" to emacs a number of times, but concluded
> (rightly or wrongly) that I probably wouldn't become significantly
> faster by switching to a different set of key bindings.
> 
> However, there were a number of features that emacs (and other
> editors) have which make stock vi look really clunky.  In the early
> nineties (around '93 or so), I started looking for a vi clone with
> more advanced capabilities.  I did try out ``vim'', but at the time,
> it was relatively feeble and wouldn't even build cleanly on my (then)
> primary work machine (an m88k SVR4 box).  I finally discovered
> ``vile'' while reading an X11 FAQ.  I was doubtful at first (mostly
> become of its name), but I gave it a try and discovered that it built
> *very* cleanly and even had rudimentary X window system support.  I
> set out to improve the X support and contributed a number of other
> features.  (Read the CHANGES files if you're interested in the
> details.) One of these days, I hope to find time to add a GTK+
> interface to xvile.
> 
> Kevin
> 
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