Editor(s) and a trip to Paris
Which editor is the editor? I have tried several editors now for software development and I still did not find the editor. Here is some about the experience I made with the different editors so far...
Anjuta is pretty nice. But if wastes a lot of space for eyecandy window borders and stuff. On my 1024x768 laptop screen this is inacceptable. But I used it already for a lot of software since it has some nice features. Although it is a graphical app it has a nice keyboard support. What it lacks is the ability to show at least two files on the screen at once. But with that huge font more would be no fun...
Then we have the classic vi. I really like this editor and almost all of niemueller.de has been done with vi. It has really great highlighting and I like the navigation! What it lacks it multi-buffer/multi-window support. Having more consoles and switching with Alt-Tab is only a workaround...
Then we have emacs. It has nice multi-buffer support. But the default keymap just sucks. Who the hell did heck that out with shortcuts like "Ctrl-X u" or "Ctrl-X o" to switch frames!? This is really bad as you need both hands for it. I like to have all erally important shortcuts one-handed. Marking text for cut and paste is really the worst I have ever seen for an editor... With a lot of editing of my .emacs file this could be the editor, but this will need a lot of work!
Then there are a lot of smaller editors. Most lack a useful syntax highlighting or are single-frame editors. So it seems there is still no editor out there that really fits my needs...
To forget about that for some days my girl-friend and me will travel to Paris for some days and welcome the next year over there.
Best wishes for the next year to you and editor flames to /dev/null :-)
