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Re: Text Editors and AGLL Coding
Posted By: Stephen, on host 204.216.159.63
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998, at 19:16:01
In Reply To: Text Editors and AGLL Coding posted by Sam on Thursday, December 10, 1998, at 17:41:42:

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> I hope your clone is "vim" -- that's a particularly good one.

No it's not, it's "Oak Hill Vi", one of many vi clones I more or less grabbed randomly. Is vim share/freeware?

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> I second Dave's advice -- if you don't mind trying to learn it, then learn it. But you don't need to learn it just for AGL.

Actually, I'm starting to like it. It was a MAJOR pain to get used to it at first. Having to go into "input mode" just to type something took forever to remember to do. But it seems nifty, and there's a ton of neat things I see from looking through the documentation.

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> Regarding our previous email, I have tried out DOS "Edit" and confirmed that yes, it translates tab characters into multiple spaces. So Edit is essentially incapable for use writing AGLL code. However, I tried Windows' Notepad, and it seemed to work very well. It doesn't do any auto-wrapping, and it preserves tab characters. That makes it just right for AGLL coding.

Well, Notepad I have mixed feelings about. It doesn't like large files, and I hate the way it looks. I may end up using that, but right now I'm having fun just messing with vi. Anyway, I'm not really at the stage of writing code yet, so it's a moot point.

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> Or you can download the editor Ni'tharn suggested.

Yeah, I think I've seen it before, it seemed pretty good as well. But the thrill of learning some supposedly really cool text editor is too much to resist...

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