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Date:Mon Aug 2 18:22:44 2003 
Subject:Re: poplog interactive mode - PS 
From:ug57dsm 
Volume-ID:1030802.01 

Stephen Leach wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> David Moss writes:
> 
>>>Whilst doing my 1st year on AI & CS I got fed up with some (read most)
>>>os the way [x]ved handles file editing... IMHO its even more painful
>>>than vi!
> 
> 
> Everyone has reservations about [X]Ved (and every other editor) but comparing
> with vi seems a little unkind!  Would you care to expand on the
> particular issues that you have experienced with [X]Ved?  I would
> be interested to read about that.
> 

No syntax colorizing has to be the top one, but also there is no code 
folding, the default key bindings are awkward the focus model of the WM 
is overriden, the colors (in help/ref/teach files) look badly painted, 
no tab-editing (for multiple buffers, i.e. you need different windows 
for each) and some other pithy complaints. Most of that is also true of 
vi, but at least the key-bindings are more straight forward.

also by making it a jedit plugin poplog gets access to all of the other 
jedit plugins (or should it be the other way around?)

dave.

PS: I have a (almost) complete standalone version of the java-bound 
poplog incremental compiler. Will put in my website when its ready. The 
jedit plugin extensions will take a bit longer...

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