Invisible wrote:

> 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.

I avoid Notepad like the black plague. I use Notepad2, which is also 
scintilla-based, free, and has basic syntax highlighting.

Strangely, I like the SDI interface it provides. It's lightweight, but 
at the same time much more powerful than notepad.

> 
> 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?

I tried Emacs under Windows once. I gave up on it. Vi is something I'd 
rather forget.

-- 
~Mike

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