Re: A83: Poll
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Re: A83: Poll
In accordance with the prophecy, Kouri uttered:
> Hi. Just a quick poll here. Which editor do you prefer? Windows Notepad,
> DOS Edit, or other?
I like vim, or when I'm in AmigaOS, ced. One thing I think is important in an
editor is that you get ultimate control over the text file; if you want a
line to end with three spaces, then you should be able to. The spaces mustn't
go away when you press enter. (They do in some editors.) Then, an end-of-file
marker is pretty useful too.
And you'll need search, possibly search-and-replace, and some way of getting
to know where you are in the file. That could be a special keypress, e.g.
pressing Y= would change the status line to "<filename> <line>/<numlines>
<byte>/<numbytes> <percentage>" (or some abbreviated form of that).
Linus
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