Invisible escreveu:
> My God... The Windows native port is a 37 MB download! O_O
> 
> *dies*
> 
> I thought SciTE was bad for taking almost 2 MB, but 37 MB for a mere 
> text editor?

That's a problem with someone who thinks a mere text editor should be 
considered featureful if it provides syntax highlighting.  Emacs/vi + 
Unix command-line is pretty much a textual IDE, not mere editor -- the 
size is even light in the face of graphical IDEs.  Plus the editor 
component is far more featureful than most IDE's editing component.

> Not content with merely being a text editor, it also tries to be a 
> newsreader, web browser, file manager, calendar, and even a Tetris 
> clone. Unfortunately, from the screenshots I've seen, it does none of 
> these things very well.

Screenshots don't show functionality.

> (People may complain that SciTE is primitive, but at least it can manage 
> ANTIALIASED TEXT. :-P Emacs just looks like an ancient console app 
> grafted to look superficially like a modern program...)

Emacs/Unix looks ugly and performs like an athlete.  Notepad/Windows 
looks shiny and performs like a snail.  Hey, if you get a Mac you can 
have awesome visuals + Unix featureful command-line apps.  Best of 2 
worlds! :-D

> Does anybody know what the hell "C-u 10 C-f" is actually supposed to 
> mean? What the heck is a "meta key"? Why are cut and past called kill 
> and yank? The list of questions goes on and on.

RTFM?

C-u 10 (do next command 10 times)
C-f (moves the text cursor (f)orward by 1 char)

You'll move your cursor forward by 10 chars.  That's another thing I 
enjoy in more featureful editors:  simple repetition and far better 
units of motion than just char, word, line or page.  Both vim and emacs 
also allow for moving by sentences and paragraphs/blocks of text.  What 
about easy hierachical editing by moving up and down, into and out of 
scope blocks in programming languages?

Hmm, I think I've made my case for these features here before and didn't 
make your mind then, won't be trying it again... you should try to learn 
and actually practice it to see what you was losing all these years 
rather than ask for features and then just rebating and turning such 
features down on such silly arguments as beauty or other non-sense. 
Looks alone don't mean squat for powerful text editing.

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