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From: "Fieldhouse, Dirk" <Fieldhouse AT logica DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: editors
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 23:06:24 -0000 
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On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 12:55:52 +1100, Brendan Simon <bsimon at ctam dot com
dot au> wrote:

> I have never found VIDE slow, but I haven't done anything 
> major with it.
> I've just played with it.  If there is a VIDE that is 
> compiled for cygwin (as
> apposed to naitve windows environment) then it might be a _little_bit_
> slower.
> 
> My problem with VIDE is that the icons look pretty bad.  They 
> are grey/black
> and are non standard.  The X-Windows version looks pretty 
> awful too.  Is
> there a GTK version ?  This is only my opinion and is 
> currently the reason
> I don't use VIDE.  I'm looking for a good cross-platform editor and am
> considering wxStudio but it is still in its infancy and not ready for
> distribution.  I probably use VIDE if I was happy with the 
> look and feel.
>...>
 
VIDE is impressive even if the look is a little weird - after all, it's
built with its own cross-platform GUI toolkit - but (and I know this is a
religious issue) I can't be doing with any of the emulations that Bruce
offers now. I'm always surprised by messages asking how to get vi working -
I'd be asking how to remove it if anything.

Ignoring for the moment the real emacs, which is a little heavyweight for my
platform, my vote goes to the "notGNU" emacs (Windows/DOS/Linux - is that
cross-platform enough?) at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/4154/, or, if you want syntax
highlighting, for Windows only, Jens' File Editor at
http://home.t-online.de/home/Jens.Altmann/jfe.htm. Both of these have enough
hooks to serve as a lightweight IDE, though personally I run a separate
command line for building and testing and use them for editing only.

Other contenders would include SuperIDE (http://protostar.hypermart.net/)
though I haven't tried it recently, for Windows only, Grasp
(http://www.eng.auburn.edu/grasp), a tool specialised to Auburn's CSD
method, and ClassBuilder (search simtel, etc), a C++ tool with integrated
class diagram editor.

I hope this slightly off-topic post is useful.

/df

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