>>> so, all your programs are some monolithic piece of software with all
>>> parts compiled in one go?
>>
>> Yes. Why?
>
> because it's both wrong and dumb.

That's right up there with saying that Haskell is better than C because 
C is both wrong and dumb. Yeah, it's true, but it won't convince anybody...

>>> you should look at any editor aside notepad.
>>
>> To be fair, SciTE allows you to define what F5, F7 and Ctrl+F7 do.
>> (But only once per file-extension.) Sadly it doesn't let you do "when
>> I press F7, compile THAT file, not the file I'm currently editing".
>
> yeah, while we're at it, it should also guess that THAT file is the
> right file you have in mind...

How hard would it be to allow each directory to contain a file saying 
what commands each key should be bound to? Or a text box to let you 
change it just for this session? Or *something*...

>>> you're nuts. Any decent editor has support for several file buffers.
>>
>> Any decent GUI-mode text editor, yes. On the a text terminal, you
>> can't do that.
>>
>> (Correction: Emacs can do it. And it looks awful.)
>
> emacs, vi, pico etc...
>
> it may look awful, but it behaves great. Ever heard "don't judge a book
> by its cover"?

The whole point of a text editor is for looking at text. Why make it 
look awful when you can make it look good? Why make your job harder when 
you can make it easier?

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