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Miscellaneous => Programming & Networking => Topic started by: _kill__bill on 17 January 2006, 23:49

Title: Poxe
Post by: _kill__bill on 17 January 2006, 23:49

I'm just spreading the news of my latest project and asking for volunteers. Please? It will hurt Microsoft in a tiny way, or at least help to make your efforts better. I don't want to beg.
 
Web:
http://groups.google.com/group/poxe (http://groups.google.com/group/poxe)
 
Email:
[email protected] ([email protected])
 
Long Live the Revolution!

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: piratePenguin on 18 January 2006, 00:13

Yea at last I can dump MS notepad! :p

Best of luck with this project. Seems like it'll be alot of (not exactly innovative) work, but yea.

If/When I learn Perl it should be interesting to hack at.

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: cymon on 18 January 2006, 01:39

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POXE is supposed to be a free, portable, Perl-based EMACS-like editor. Windows, MacOS X, *nix and *BSD will be supported by v2.0. For 1.0, just *nix and Windows. About me: I am just a guy who tried to make some nifty stuff for GNU Emacs and found LISP too confusing, obfuscated, and most of all: OLD. It may be a...

You do realize that MacOS X, BSD, and *nix are all the same thing, right?

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: noob on 18 January 2006, 16:27

No everyone does though.

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: Refalm on 18 January 2006, 19:14

Nothing can replace Vi IMproved (http://www.vim.org/) ;)

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: _kill__bill on 18 January 2006, 21:48

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You do realize that MacOS X, BSD, and *nix are all the same thing, right?

Mac OS X:macos: , *BSD:bsd: and *nix:tux: may all have the same executable format, and in many cases are interoperable, they can have major GUI differences and libraries, mostly Mac OS X.
 
The terminal mode, and maybe even the X11 mode might work on OS X. Eventually I'll port it to the Mac OS X GUI mode (whatever it's called. Cocoa, I think. Maybe Aqua. It's been a while.).
 

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Nothing can replace Vi IMproved

 
Maybe for you, but I hate modal editors. Besides, Vim isn't as portable or extendable. I won't force you to use something else, but don't make me use Vim. Besides, another choice is always good.
 
 
 
Should be done in 6 months, if I get help. Funny thing is, I'm writing it on Emacs. :cool:
 
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Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: cymon on 19 January 2006, 00:20

Well things like vim and emacs are pretty much native command line apps. I think people just want a simple text editor, if they want all the bells and whistles, then you get openoffice or something. That's why I use vi and nano.

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: piratePenguin on 19 January 2006, 00:33

Quote from: cymon

I think people just want a simple text editor, if they want all the bells and whistles, then you get openoffice or something.

But if you're a programmer, you would need Emacs or at least vim. You could use nano either if you wanted, or even ed (ha), but the likes of vim and Emacs are much more complete and some of their features aren't always useful, but when they are, they're useful (genius).

God help any programmer who codes in OOo...

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: cymon on 19 January 2006, 00:43

I do use vim, though I'm not a programmer. That's what OS-X came with. I'm just saying that I don't need many of the Emacs features, I like something nice and light.

Any code written in OO would be bloated just because it was written in OO.

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: piratePenguin on 19 January 2006, 00:52

Quote from: cymon

I do use vim, though I'm not a programmer. That's what OS-X came with. I'm just saying that I don't need many of the Emacs features, I like something nice and light.

Yea, I agree that alot of Emacs' features would really only be useful to developers. They can be removed, but that is extra work unless you use a non-official distribution or a different clone (like micro emacs).

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Any code written in OO would be bloated just because it was written in OO.

I don't have OOo here, but I can save and edit files in plain text format using Kword. joy (http://illhostit.com/files/6591771095421243/joy.png) (I think I'll stick with Emacs)

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: solemnwarning on 19 January 2006, 14:05

/me bows to kwrite+kdevelop :D

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: Refalm on 19 January 2006, 16:45

I need my text editor to do syntax highlighting. Otherwise, it's useless to me.

Vi IMproved does this, OOo doesn't, but OOo is great for writing letters, reports, importing db tables from SQL, etc.

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: solemnwarning on 19 January 2006, 21:29

Quote from: Refalm

I need my text editor to do syntax highlighting. Otherwise, it's useless to me.

Vi IMproved does this, OOo doesn't, but OOo is great for writing letters, reports, importing db tables from SQL, etc.

kwrite has syntax highlighting :P

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: Refalm on 20 January 2006, 13:52

Quote from: solemnwarning

kwrite has syntax highlighting :P

I don't like KWrite for some reason, although I love KDE apps.
I guess Vim has a faster user interface.

Title: Re: Poxe
Post by: themacuser on 20 January 2006, 14:26

I think I'll just stick with Xcode...