Mail Archives: djgpp/2009/04/07/17:30:42
Hi,
On Apr 7, 11:53=A0am, "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_h DOT DOT DOT AT nohavenot DOT cmm> wrote:
> "Rugxulo" <rugx DOT DOT DOT AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
>
> news:26b8b849-581a-491c-8642-6817b0a2c35d AT n8g2000vbb DOT googlegroups DOT com...
> On Apr 3, 7:47 am, Rugxulo <rugx DOT DOT DOT AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> > > If anybody is really interested, I could post (or perhaps link to) my
> > > DOS text editor feature comparison list. (It's fairly informative but
> > > could always be improved.)
>
> > Well, hopefully Rod P. at least will find this comparison interesting:
>
> Actually, I was thinking it might strike a chord with Jim Leonard. =A0But=
, it
> seems you're aware of his older editors page, and already tried to "discu=
ss"
> other editors with him... =A0:-)
I only discussed it very very briefly with him a few months back. I
think he's tired of me by now. ;-)
> Previously,
>
> > > I don't see the appeal of MS EDIT, esp. since it always expands tabs
> > > (IIRC). I'm not saying it's bad, just there are better editors out
> > > there.
>
> Well, I for one *HATE* tabs in code.
I don't think you're alone.
http://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TabsVsSpaces
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TabsVersusSpaces
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/NoTabs
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TabsAreEvil
> I always end up converting them to
> spaces or a space, and reformatting or re-indenting. =A0The only use I've=
ever
> found for them is to align columns of data. =A0But even then, I find usua=
lly
> need to remove them for some reason, or other... =A0They're just a major
> nuisance.
Recently I had the crazy idea to switch to hard tabs (via TDE.CFG). I
honestly forget why, maybe makefiles, but I eventually ran into some
subtle incompatibilities that annoyed me, so I switched back. Besides
in TDE I can toggle the Tab key to make "RealTabs" at runtime if
needed (Shift-Alt-T).
But I mostly never use real tabs anyways (although most make utils
won't work without 'em, which I find silly). But it's still odd for an
editor to always expand 'em. Anyways, at least MS EDIT finally
supported multiple file windows in Win95, but they haven't updated it
since. And one FreeDOS guy liked the interface so much that he
recently decided to clone it:
http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/dos/en/download.php?plik=3Dmsedit
P.S. Looking through CWS' ED sources today, I noticed lines with a LOT
of tabs. I'm talking about eight, nine, 10 tabs at the beginning of a
single line! Whew! ;-)
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