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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