![]() ![]() I use it for HTML, CSS, e-mail and about everything else that doesn't require visual formatting. BBEdit is easily the most-customizable, reliable and feature-rich text editor I have worked with. For casual, unsophisticated applications by someone who grew up with green screen character based computers, it's probably OK. I have been using text editors for almost 25 years now, starting with C64, Atari ST, then MacOS, Windows and back to OS X. For this reason, I would not recommend Emacs to anyone who is under 50 year old, or who needs power user capabilities. Pinegrow is a Mac, Windows and Linux web editor that lets you build responsive websites faster with live multi-page editing, CSS & SASS styling, CSS Grid editor. The things I just mentioned, are all present in some limited and inept form, but falls far short of current standard of good user interface design. BBEdit also shipped with a rare (again, at the time) ability to open and juggle loooooots of windows, and with a little bit of Applescript wed try to open an. To this day, it lacks or struggles with very basic things, like interactive dialogs, toolbars, tabbed interface, file system navigation, etc., etc. So Emacs does 5% or what an editor should do quite will, and is surprisingly under-powered and old fashioned at the other 95%. ![]() Unfortunately, it didn't keep up with the times and fails to take advantage of the entire world of GUI design that's revolutionized computer science since then. Alternatives to BBEdit Notepad++ Free Notepad++ is a portable and powerful code editor. In fairness to Emacs, its original design was conceived in that context and is rather good at some things, like flexible ability to bind commands to keyboard shortcuts. User interface is terrible I was using Emacs in the early 1980's, before there were GUIs. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |