Re: programming editor

[G Hasse <gh raditex se>]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Ilan Volow wrote:

> --- "tony K." <tony kwok 3web net> wrote:
> > This might be slightly OT, but I noticed that I am
> > not the only one 
> > that works simultaneously in MSWindows and Gnome.

The lack of X-window in MSWindows is your main
obstackle. Not the different "platforms".

> > I am looking - so far unsucessfully - for a
> > graphical, mouse/menu
> > oriented,  (i.e. no Vi, Emacs. etc...)  programming
> > editor  that 

Mount your file-systems so that you can work from
any of the platforms. Note that Windows demands a lokal
user and it is hard to compile and debugg remotly in 
Windows. This chould be amended by something like
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/interix/ or
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/xfree/

> > satisfies the following (non-negotiable!) list of 
> > requirements:
> >
> > 1) Same user interface on both platforms.

With the abowe tools your dream has come true.

> > 2) Has multiple-file search/replace facility.

AHA like 
perl -pi.bak -e 's/xxx/yyy/' `find . -name \*.c`
which is easy to spawn from emacs...

> > 3) Can do vertical scroll using mouse wheel.

AJ - keybindings are strange...

> > 4) Works with global clipboard in both environments.

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/emacs_415.html

This is WERY global... ;-)

> > 5) Works reasonably well with large (1-2Meg) (text)
> > data files.

Someting like 
ls -als *.wav
71520 -rw-r--r--  1 gh  gh  36580700 Dec  8 19:45 slask.wav
emacs slask.wav

No - problem...

> > 6) Does C language syntax highlight.

use ( require 'hilit19)

> > 7) Can have multiple (single-window) copies running
> > at the same time.

new-frame
make-frame-on-display

> > And that is it... nothing more required, nothing
> > less accepted.

And the strange thing is it would not cost you a penny.
(But it has a steep learning curve... )

G H

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