From: David Kastrup <dak@...>
Date: 2007-03-20T06:50:06+09:00
Subject: Re: SciTE Alternatives

"M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> writes:

> Vim is about as heavy as Emacs these days, although if you learned
> the old "vi", you can for the most part ignore all the stuff that's
> been tacked on. For that matter, both Emacs and its forked cousin
> XEmacs have a Notepad-like mouse interface and will run on Linux,
> Windows, Macs, Solaris and probably BSD variants as well. For that
> matter, though, so does Vim's "gvim" variant. (Notepad, mouse,
> Linux, Windows, Mac, Solaris and probably BSD).
>
> Editors, IDEs, etc. seem to be converging to something that almost
> any programmer can walk up to and use.

Disagree.  Only very few Emacs users nowadays use Emacs on a tty, and
only very few vim users use the graphical "gvim" variant.

So I don't see convergence.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum