RE: 2.4 Proposed Modules - 2 weeks left

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Julien Olivier [mailto:julo altern org] 
> I have read lot of flamewars between emacs and vi but I never read any
> flamewar between gedit and any of them. Gedit is just a plain text
> editor. It doesn't have 10% of the functions emacs and vi have but it
> has 90% of the functions a text editor (by opposition to code editor)
> should have.
> 
> If GNOME had to provide a _code_ editor, I would say that 
> gedit is very
> bad choice (at least for the moment). But GNOME _desktop_ 
> doesn't really
> aim to provide a code editor, does it ?

You'll be pleased to hear that gedit now supports syntax-highlighting for
code. No, I don't think it's a good idea either.

Murray Cumming
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