[Tutor] Text Editors and Linux (was Re: exit message)

[Alan Gauld]

On 09/05/13 15:42, David Rock wrote:

>> Or use emacs... :-)
>
> There's always one.  You aren't helping the case for console apps with
> that one at all.  :-)

Not necessarily since you can run  emacs in a non GUI mode and create 
multiple shell buffers. Each of these can be scrolled/split etc. (In 
fact the original reason I started using emacs back in the late '80s was 
the ability to connect to different machines and run remote shells as 
well as remotely view/edit files via archie...a kind of prototypical web 
for those too young to remember! And all on a VT220... :-)

But the OP wasn't specifically asking about console apps just the use of 
"Linux as an IDE" and emacs, even in its GUI format, definitely plays in 
that space, it can use grep/errors/trace etc. as well as present 
multiple 'consoles'.

But then emacs can also be considered an IDE in its own right so its 
maybe a special case.

-- 
Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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