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Re: Top 10 for young farts [message #20988 is a reply to message #20980]

Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00

Nicolas Decoster
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Registered: March 2000

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Ivan Zimine wrote:
>
> Martin Schultz wrote:
>>
>> Well, maybe I am cheating here, but as I am still considered a "young
>> scientist", I thought I could dare ;-)
>>
>> Working mostly on a Linux system and abhjorring the IDE (to me, it's
>> just too cluttered, how can you live
>> with three lines of 40 characters as an editor window?), I would very
>> much like to see some more intelligence of the command line. There
>> should be an auto-complete functionality (TAB would complete a command
>> or give you a choice of options), and one should be able to jump back
>> and forth with CTRL-arrow, HOME, and END, so that you don't get sore
>> muscles when you edit commands previously entered (and you want to
>> change the first of twenty arguments).
>>
>> Just a thought (and a new thread),
>> Martin
>>
>
> I second.
>
> Emacs is not the only editor.
> WinXX and Mac users will also benefit from it

Ports of emacs for WinXX and Mac exist. But you are right, emacs is not
the only editor. But idlde has not the features requested by Martin
Schultz; emacs with idlwave-mode has. As long with other usefull things,
like code templates, online help...

Later.

Nicolas.

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		Re: Top 10 for young farts By: Steve Hartmann on Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for young farts By: Nicolas Decoster on Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for young farts By: Benno Puetz on Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for young farts By: Ivan Zimine on Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for young farts By: Nicolas Decoster on Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00
		Re: Top 10 for young farts By: dominik on Thu, 03 August 2000 00:00

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