On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 02:30:37AM +0200, Allan Wegan wrote:
>
> >
> > Vim and Emacs are commandline editors - we got 2016 and IDEs for other
> > languages evolved to be GUI-driven out there.
>
> I don't know vim, but emacs is *not* a command line editor.  It's a
> full-screen, text-mode only editor.
>

Yes! Moreover, emacs has a gui version for a long time. The gui version,
supports
mouse, rendering images and latex formulas, drop-down menus, and all the
stuff that one might
desire from a gui application. Maybe emacs gui is not as ugly as a regular
Qt[1] application,
but I can't blame it for this.

[1]: or winapi, or gtk or <you (un)favorite> gui framework


If you're looking for a true command-line editor, look at some of the
> editors I was using in the 60's and early 70's when we only had
> printing terminals like the ancient teletypes.  You gave them commands to
> go
> forward and backward in the text being edited, to search for particular
> strings because how else are you going to tell them where to go when
> you can'd even see the text you're editing (perhaps you had a
> line-printer listing so you could tell it what string to search for)
> and it wouldn't even show you the line you were working on unless you
> gave it a command to do so.
>
> Those were command-line editors.
>
> -- hendrik
>
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