[Info-vax] improving EDT

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/16/2016 8:26 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-11-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 11/16/2016 5:15 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>> From what I have heard from various people, Notepad++ is
>>> a rather nice and lightweight programming editor.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Notepad++ and Atom seems to be preferred general editors
>> these days.
>
> Just had a quick look.
>
> Notepad++ is indeed Windows only as you suggested in your other
> post and Atom appears to be GUI only; there is no apparent character
> cell support so you can forget about running multiple instances in
> multiple xterm/PuTTY windows or over a low bandwidth SSH connection
> where graphics rendering would take too long.

Text based editors have not been in fashion for many years.

But usually those are only needed for minor work, so no
need for a very powerful editor.

I don't think there has been any new text based editor the
last 20 years or so.

Arne