Re: The end of the line

Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> It has come to this. Unless miracles happen, I don't think I will
> be using or working on Ion much anymore. Cygwin is a big pile of
> shit [1], with an even bigger pile of filth for a project manager; 
> It has no hope. A typical FOSS project, that is. I will be trying 
> to complete my Windows transition, and reduce my Cygwin dependency, 
> hopefully to nil. This will mean that I can not use Ion anymore;
> I do not personally have the time for a Windows port.
> 
>   [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/110341
> 
> PS. I will need a decent Windows text editor to even attempt
> moving out of Cygwin. Any suggestions? I need set-mark
> type selection (I don't like shift selection); configurable
> key bindings, with support for key sequences (^K B, etc.);
> LaTeX syntax highlighting, maybe Lua, etc.

Emacs is available for Windows natively 
(http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/), so is VIM 
(ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/).

It's a shame that you are not going to be working on Ion anymore. 
Windows also needs a decent window manager; it's default one is also 
horrible.

   -- MJF