At 2:38 PM +0200 5/26/09, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
One reason to stop is that it only runs on VMS (at
least I think so, and
I'm only counting modern systems here). The editor I use runs on VMS,
*nix and windows, which is nice. Still I have learned a few other
editors for systems that don't have my editor of choice installed.
In spite of what HP might want people to believe, VMS is not dead,
and is a modern OS. I'm sure I'm not the only one on this list that
uses and actively develops for VMS.
Personally I use a whole mess of editors depending on what platform
I'm on. Here are the primary ones. The main reason I use xemacs is
for the context colouring, while joe will now do that, I find xemacs
is better for writing software and having several files open.
Context colouring is the same reason why I use nedit on OpenVMS.
OpenVMS - EDT, nedit
UNIX - joe, xemacs
Mac OS X - SubEthaEdit, xemacs
Windows - notepad, Visual Studio
Zane
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