Editing dilemma
Aug. 12th, 2005 03:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talarubiSo let's see here...
Word 6:
- Fast, decent program.
- Also uselessly out of date.
OpenOffice 2:
- Nice and fancy. Functionality looks promising.
- Big and slow (it's a word processor, wtf people!!).
- Most of the GUI effort went into the mouse interface.
- Docs are not up to par yet, terse and partially outdated.
- Keyboard appears to be an afterthought--arbitrary shortcuts not assignable, only ones from the list which does not include Alt+*, unlike Word.
vim:
- The classic editor.
- Has a wonderfully rich command set.
- Even does tiled windows and buffers and syntax highlighting to your heart's content.
- After all these years, still runs on a terminal.
- Moreover, still does not support document formatting!
SciTE:
- Wonderful syntax formatting, branch collapsing.
- Understands multiple languages in a source file!! (eg HTML+Javascript)
- Configuration is labyrinthine and really annoying.
- Despite the formatting engine, only edits text files. o..O
Mozilla Composer:
- Great for basic HTML.
- Waaay too dependent on the mouse.
- Badly-integrated CSS support! Only viable way to use CSS is to write stylesheets and then copy and paste text with the right class. :(
Other random editors that bit me:
- Written in Java. Ridiculously slow, awkward GUI.
- Often featurism is adjusted for the author. Buggy in general case.
- Install/uninstall can be an issue (!).
- Sometimes sloppy coding, resource leaks.
Notepad variants:
- Simple and to the point.
- Always available.
- Always, always does what I want (or at least what I said).
- Probably best formatted editor available, if you count HTML. *sigh*
...help? :P
Word 6:
- Fast, decent program.
- Also uselessly out of date.
OpenOffice 2:
- Nice and fancy. Functionality looks promising.
- Big and slow (it's a word processor, wtf people!!).
- Most of the GUI effort went into the mouse interface.
- Docs are not up to par yet, terse and partially outdated.
- Keyboard appears to be an afterthought--arbitrary shortcuts not assignable, only ones from the list which does not include Alt+*, unlike Word.
vim:
- The classic editor.
- Has a wonderfully rich command set.
- Even does tiled windows and buffers and syntax highlighting to your heart's content.
- After all these years, still runs on a terminal.
- Moreover, still does not support document formatting!
SciTE:
- Wonderful syntax formatting, branch collapsing.
- Understands multiple languages in a source file!! (eg HTML+Javascript)
- Configuration is labyrinthine and really annoying.
- Despite the formatting engine, only edits text files. o..O
Mozilla Composer:
- Great for basic HTML.
- Waaay too dependent on the mouse.
- Badly-integrated CSS support! Only viable way to use CSS is to write stylesheets and then copy and paste text with the right class. :(
Other random editors that bit me:
- Written in Java. Ridiculously slow, awkward GUI.
- Often featurism is adjusted for the author. Buggy in general case.
- Install/uninstall can be an issue (!).
- Sometimes sloppy coding, resource leaks.
Notepad variants:
- Simple and to the point.
- Always available.
- Always, always does what I want (or at least what I said).
- Probably best formatted editor available, if you count HTML. *sigh*
...help? :P
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Date: 2005-08-12 05:46 pm (UTC)You'll note that you can save your keyboard configuration on the Customize -> Keyboard option dialog. From there you can alter the current.xml file in the zip archive it saves.
Interestingly enough, Alt+* does in fact exist as a shortcut, but it doesn't seem to work on my end. Whether this is a bug or an oversight on the developers, I can't say.
I know, inconvenient, but at least it's there. Sort of, heh.