Best editor?

[Steve Holden]

ChinStrap wrote:
> When not using the interactive prompt, what are you using? I keep
> hearing everyone say Emacs, but I can't understand it at all. I keep
> trying to learn and understand why so many seem to like it because I
> can't understand customization even without going through a hundred
> menus that might contain the thing I am looking for (or I could go
> learn another language just to customize!).
> 
> Personally I like SciTE, it has everything I think a midweight editor
> should: code folding, proper python support, nice colors out of the
> box, hotkey access to compile (I'm sure emacs does this, but I couldn't
> figure out for the life of me how), etc.
> 
> Opinions on what the best is? Or reading I could get to maybe sway me
> to Emacs (which has the major advantage of being on everyone's system).
> 
There is only a "best" editor if you aare convinced that only oine 
measure is important, allowing you to place all editors on a single 
straight line and declare the one that appears furthest to the left or 
right the "best".

In practice, of course, different people value different editor 
characteristics, so there are a multitude of opinions about which is "best".

regards
  Steve
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