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Re: Favorite editing tool on windows based machine.
- From: Dave Pawson <dpawson at nildram dot co dot uk>
- To: Uten Navn <UtenNavn at subdimension dot com>, docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:04:40 +0000
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Favorite editing tool on windows based machine.
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At 19:39 24/11/2002, Uten Navn wrote:
>If you are on a slow line and have Java installed (suppose you have to compile docbooks..:o) you definitely want jedit. It is a reasonable small download. 1.4MB beats the 17MB download for emacs. Just observe that the package manager requires a connection to download the XML plugins.
Over 5 years, the efficiency of emacs must beat the *'&% of out anything
else... even if only used for xml.
when its used for java, python text .....
>If you know your way around emacs you might prefer that package, but jedit is really appealing. One hour of fiddling, and I'm sold on it.
OK, I guess I spent more than one hour fiddling with emacs.
But can jedit show you a calender view?
Or provide a yard of motd?
I doubt it.
DaveP