Re: Good ReStructuredText editors
Aahz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.docutils.user |
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| Organization | The Cat & Dragon |
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2014, Terry Brown wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 06:19:21 +1100 > Ben Finney <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The only text editors I know which are free software, cross-platform, >> powerfully extensible, already adapted to countless editing tasks out >> of the box, and many-decades mature with a passionate community, are >> Vim and Emacs. > > I think you can say the same thing about http://leoeditor.com/ just not > to quite the same degree as Vim and Emacs. Leo is decades old (not the > current code-base though ;-), free software, cross-platform, > powerfully extensible, already adapted to countless editing tasks out > of the box, and has a passionate community. Leo is not as old, doesn't > have as large a community, and would have a shorter list of out of the > box editing tasks than Emacs / Vim, but if you want an extensible tool > you can live in and in particular if you use Python / PyQt, [...] That last bit is exactly why I stick with vim -- my pinky hurts when I use Emacs, and I'm still very much a command-line fanatic (I run Vim in a terminal window). The OP should consider whether requiring a GUI for editing is too limiting. -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Member of the Groucho Marx Fan Club ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk