[apologies for the delay; I got busy and couldn't keep up here this
week.]

On Tue, 11 May 2004 20:17:27 +0000, Realto Margarino wrote:
>> "mcedit index.html" and a good online HTML reference.
>
> Do you really think mcedit is powerful enough? It's probably the
> easiest editor to use for quick and dirty stuff but I like vim for
> doing serious work. You can't open two files at the same time on a
> split screen for one thing.

You make a good point. However, vim doesn't do well for me because I
have never bothered to learn the details. I only know a bare minimum of
vi commands. I'm sure that vim (and emacs) pay off for those who invest
the time to learn them; I just have never had the need to do so.

I can make a lot of things happen in mc. My workaround for the two
files thing is simple: 2 mc's on tabs in konsole. Ctrl-F and Shift-F5
acts as an effective shared clipboard among multiple instances. The F4
search-and-replace function is quite useful. I don't doubt it's less
powerful than what can be done in vi/vim/emacs, but it's good enough
for my kind of work (shell scripting, configuration files.)

Different tools better suit different forms of writing. I heard Robin
Miller (roblimo of newsforge) speak at a LUG meeting once, and for his
sort of writing ... journalism, and not necessarily HTML ... he said
*bluefish* was his editor of choice! (How's that for getting this back
around to topic, sort of?
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