a good programming text editor (not IDE)

[bruno at modulix]

BartlebyScrivener wrote:
>>>Most IDEs are rather weak as text editors compared to emacsen.
> 
> 
> That's true, but even emacs and xemacs don't offer simple automatic
> word wrap (i.e. wrap a line without splitting words or putting an eol
> or hard carriage return at the end of every line). I don't know if vim
> allows this. 

line-wrapping in an IDE ???

> It's something writers just take for granted in non-Unix
> text editors. 

Ah, ok. It's about vim/emacs as a general text editor. Emacs provides
word-wrapping, but true, it split words. I maybe wrong, but I don't
think it would be that hard to make it more word-friendly.

Now I wonder: what the use for line-wrapping at first ? Both emacs and
vim are text *editors*, not text *formatters*. Might be a unix-vs-others
cultural difference, but the general use on unix is to use some markup
(tex/LaTex, html, ReST or any 'structured-text' variant etc) and the
appropriate formater/renderer for presentation stuff.


-- 
bruno desthuilliers
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p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"