fabien Henon wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Yes there can be way to go around this, but when I use POV I don't want
> to spend half a day learning how emacs work.

Well, of course no one is forcing you to use emacs but your arguments are
mostly not correct:

- controlling the render options from the editor is not really an argument
for most people, using the command line is often more convenient and there
are also tools like:

http://www.zeropps.uklinux.net/linstuff.html#POVMENU

- Auto completition works (and is context sensitive, much more
sophisticated than in WinPOV!) Just use something like:

(define-key pov-mode-map "\M-\r" 'pov-complete-word)

(by default it's "\M-\t" IIRC which might not work because used by the
system)

- syntax highlighting works too (just needs to be activated probably)

- the render stats (as well as the image) can be accessed too of course
when the internal render function is used, a new buffer is created
containing the text output.

And more important than all this is of course that emacs has a lot of
standard editing functions some other editors (and pyvon) lack like:

- customizable auto indention
- sophisticated search function
- standard navigation functions (move forward/backward word, line,
paragraph, ...)
- standard deletion functions (delete word, line, ...)
- find matching braces.

Christoph

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