Bug#301958: zile: Core features missing in v2

2005-03-30 Thread Nick Hill
Reuben Thomas wrote: On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Nick Hill wrote: I expect users who use zile as I do are familiar with nano, pico, mc etc. There are many reasons why I prefer Zile v1 as my primary text editor I can only apologise, then. That's not the niche I'm aiming to fill. Have you considered usi

Bug#301958: zile: Core features missing in v2

2005-03-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Nick Hill wrote: I expect users who use zile as I do are familiar with nano, pico, mc etc. There are many reasons why I prefer Zile v1 as my primary text editor I can only apologise, then. That's not the niche I'm aiming to fill. Have you considered using Jed? I concur Zile

Bug#301958: zile: Core features missing in v2

2005-03-29 Thread Nick Hill
Hello Reuben, thank you for the fast reply. Reuben Thomas wrote: For users wanting an easy-to-use editor with obvious up-front help, nano and others provide a much better option than Zile with its bizarre key bindings. I expect users who use zile as I do are familiar with nano, pico, mc etc. The

Bug#301958: zile: Core features missing in v2

2005-03-29 Thread Reuben Thomas
I have reverted to version 1.6 home-compiled as the v.2 build on Debian does not have either minibuffer help (f10, f9) or syntax highlighting. This is intentional. Syntax highlighting was buggy and considered bloat. Minibuffer help was hard to maintain in its old form. Zile is not intended to ha

Bug#301958: zile: Core features missing in v2

2005-03-29 Thread t0
Package: zile Version: zile Severity: normal I have reverted to version 1.6 home-compiled as the v.2 build on Debian does not have either minibuffer help (f10, f9) or syntax highlighting. Minibuffer help is essential to those not familiar with the rather curious emacs key bindings - this low th