triple_r wrote:

> I'm into vi myself, so I'll take your question to mean, "Why would you need
> something other than Notepad anyway?"  Really?  I mean, really?  No, seriously?

Well, I actually use SciTE myself - but nobody has ever heard of that.

Yes, Notepad sucks. Massively. It fails at the most basic tasks. Then 
again, if all you need to do is quickly edit some INI file somewhere, 
Notepad can usually manage that, and it's always available. If you want 
to do anything more, get a real editor.

> If you know a good editor well, you can work about as fast as you can think.

I'm just curios to know what makes people think that Emacs (or Vi for 
that matter) is a good editor. I mean, SciTE has configurability, syntax 
hilighting and the ability to invoke external commands, but nobody 
thinks it's a good text editor. So what do Emacs and Vi have that SciTE 
doesn't?

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