From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: 3 Jun 2003 18:22:11 GMT Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1K1Da.3886$7E.44637@news-server.bigpond.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054665366 21881 80.91.224.249 (3 Jun 2003 18:36:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:36:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 20:36:04 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NGbj-0005Yc-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 20:34:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NGdH-0003Jc-Lq for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 14:35:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!an02.austin.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!kgold Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1054664531 19254 9.2.16.245 (3 Jun 2003 18:22:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jun 2003 18:22:11 GMT X-Newsreader: xrn 9.01 Originator: kgold@watson.ibm.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114056 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10550 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10550 Probably won't convince you, but ... I consider the programming modes one of the 2 most "must have" features. Actually, emacs' "weird ideas of what C code should look like" is whatever you want. There are about 1/2 dozen basic modes, with different bracket and indent styles. From there, it's simple to customize to whatever you think emacs should look like. And you also get - source code coloring - indexes of functions - automatic indentation, however you like it - expansion of macros - keystrokes to comment and uncomment code With your "basic text editor", how would you even run a spell checker on your code without getting false hits on every variable name? "Paul Edwards" writes: > I'm after basic editting functions, rather than by default being > launched into its weird ideas of what C code should look like (which > is probably a style used by less than 10% of C programmers). -- -- Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646