Emacs has eaten my python tabs!!!

Aaron K. Johnson akjmicro at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 29 13:34:45 EST 2003


In message <b17lp0$rfc$1 at wheel2.two14.net>, Martin Maney wrote:
> Aaron K. Johnson <akjmicro at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > This is mostly what people need to do using Emacs anyway, right?
> 
> Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't have cut quite so much.  This almost looks like
> a humorous comment on the subject line...
> 
> Anyway - the thing that may get me to invest enough time to get to know
> emacs well is Bicycle Repairman.  I can't really imagine how one would
> work such that fixing indentation was remotely so large a part of the
> daily grind as to steer one's choice of editor!  For the moment I, too,
> find Joe the least awful of the readily available *nix editors (but...
> the *pico* bindings?  Long ago (but not long enough: I still recall it)
> I used pico on an early middle ages Xenix box that offered few choices. 
> I was so glad to get away!)

jpico is pico plus newer, more flexible, more powerful features, and shorter
ctrl-sequences. I love it!

Best,
Aaron





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