Re: 2.4 Proposed Modules - 2 weeks left

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Murray Cumming Comneon com writes: 

> > From: Julien Olivier [mailto:julo altern org] 
> > I have read lot of flamewars between emacs and vi but I never read any
> > flamewar between gedit and any of them. Gedit is just a plain text
> > editor. It doesn't have 10% of the functions emacs and vi have but it
> > has 90% of the functions a text editor (by opposition to code editor)
> > should have. 
> >
> > If GNOME had to provide a _code_ editor, I would say that 
> > gedit is very
> > bad choice (at least for the moment). But GNOME _desktop_ 
> > doesn't really
> > aim to provide a code editor, does it ?
>
> You'll be pleased to hear that gedit now supports syntax-highlighting for
> code. No, I don't think it's a good idea either.

Well I'm sort of ashamed to admit it, but I use gedit for hacking and when I 
was in the windows world I used notepad. But this is probably because I was 
just way too lazy to learn all the emacs/vi keybindings. 

dave