When Unix Stops Being Fun

[Mike Woods]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> I can almost agree with what's written above, except for one minor but
> important detail. If you can use an editor that suits your needs both in
> console and GUI environment, both for assembly, Perl, Python, Java, C, C++
> and whatever else you find yourself writing, an editor that can easily be
> adopted to editing plain text email messages, theses in LaTeX, or even to
> browse the source code of an operating system... why would you want to
> torture yourself with a strange, difficult to use editor?

I think for a lot of people, myself included the choice of editor often 
comes down to the KISS principle,
all I really need from an editor is a means of putting data in and 
changing it around in a comfortable manner,
I tend to spend most of my time using easy edit (default editor if you 
didnt know) quite often even while in X
although I also use gedit, it has all the functionality i need and 
syntax highlighting to boot which makes it handy
for perl work but since i do a lot of my editng over ssh sessions it 
doesnt get used that often :)

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Mike Woods
IT Technician