Well I guess intuition is a relative term.....(snicker)

Really, I didn't find it that difficult to learn..

Now VI.... that's counter-intuitive~!

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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of David E Arnold
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But that's exactly the problem with emacs, the shortcut keys are way to
cryptic
and
hard to learn. Totally unintuitive. Emacs is very powerful though, I must
agree.

-Dave





Craig Lee <clee@ATTCANADA.NET> on 04/14/2000 02:14:16 PM

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I am a big fan of Emacs too, as it makes editing very quick if you've
learned
all the keyboard macros.  I figure if you've got to use a mouse, your
cheating!
(I still miss WordStar!)

However, I haven't found a variant under windows that works well with
everything
else.

Do you have a link you could share.  If I could get Emacs working, then I
would
be able to have full cross system (PC/UNIX) compatability as CS-RCS file
structure
is still the native UNIX RCS.

I've downloaded a copy of ultraedit and am looking forward to testing it's
functionality also...

Craig


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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Scott Dattalo
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 2:57 PM
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Subject: Re: Syntax Highlighting in MPLAB


On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Darrel Johansen wrote:

> My question to the PICLIST community:  What editor would you like to use
> with MPLAB?

I know I'm a minority, but I use Emacs (even when I have to use Windows I
still
use emacs). You get pic-syntax highlighting thanks to James Cameron. But at
the
same time, you get C highlighting, vhdl highlighting and probably every
other
language highlighting that exists. Furthermore you get the function lists
with
the 20.4+ releases (it works for C and C++ - I quite doubt it works for
assembly).

In addition, emacs supports cvs like Craig wants.

Actually, emacs supports probably every feature of every editor that's ever
existed.

But I don't use MPLAB, so my views are certainly not worth much as far as
suggest which editor to use. So instead of suggesting on standardizing on a
new
editor, why not just allow ANY editor to be used. I fully understand the
practical consequences... (i.e. it ain't gonna be easy). However, a good
modern
editor is configurable and should support spawning other processes. (MPLAB
can
be made to be just another process).



Scott

PS. I also use pine as my mail reader. I also use toothpicks to pry my
eyelids
open so I can program all night too :). So take my opinions for what they're
worth.