On Thursday, Dec 11, 2003, at 13:32 US/Pacific, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> But I'm just not interested in
>> anything that's not customizable, extensible, and runs on at
>> least three major operating systems.
>
> Three? I know only two, and one is not a real operating system, and the
> other is not major yet ;)

Well, when you start talking about editors, you get into display
and filesystem specifics and you might have to start dividing up "unix"
into the individual styles.  So I regularly use MacOSX, Windows, and
Solaris, which I think I have to count as there different operating
systems, even though macosx and solaris are both unix variants.  It's
an interesting question whether an x-windows based editor would be
sufficient for MacOSX.  That means that roughly, the three OSes
are windows, unix, and macos, but it's more like three window
systems in reality.


> Roughly the same reasoning led me to programming in Python.

I might have to look into python.  Just out of curiosity, why
python rather than a posix subset of C like cygwin? (which seems
to be pretty portable...)

BillW

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