Line numbers are super convenient for peer-review, so humans can refer to lines. I've written C programs just to preprend every line with a consequtive integer. Peter
On 7/21/08, Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 07:11 AM 7/21/2008, Joe Landman wrote: > >> Robert G. Brown wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Joe Landman wrote: >>> >>> Rumor has it that C-c C-o C-f C-f C-e C-e instructs emacs to make you a >>>> cup of coffee. :^ >>>> >>>> I personally want an editor without all these fancy things: just syntax >>>> highlighting for C/C++/Perl/Bash/Tcsh/Fortran/config files, that has line >>>> numbers, and intelligent wrapping/splitting. Can run from a GUI. Does >>>> split >>>> windows. >>>> >>>> gvim does all these things. But you have to be very careful typing. >>>> Because it it vi. >>>> >>>> If Komodo had window splitting and intelligent wrapping, it would be >>>> good. >>>> >>>> I looked at kate, but it requires kde. >>>> >>>> pico/nano are ok, but they don't do line numbers, or split windows, or >>>> intelligent wrapping. >>>> >>> I don't know if it has all the features you want -- line numbers? Ugh. >>> You must be coding in runes -- oh, wait, I mean Fortran;-) -- but you >>> >> >> Hey, we have a fair number of current customers with Fortran needs. It is >> not going away any time soon (didn't I say somethin bout them language >> wars?) >> >> I like line numbers to help me figure out if I have a really long line of >> text. Most text editors do a poor job of handling this case, happily >> wrapping it, without telling you, so your key navigation across the long >> lines looks really funky. >> > > > Line numbers are handy when you get that > > "syntax error in line 34 of file xyz.c" > > > too.. > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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