[Haskell-cafe] Editor

[Alexis]

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 02:30, Claus Reinke wrote:
> >Vim is eliminated before it reaches the gate because it's a modal
> >editor.  Even with GVim in place, it still has that modal stench to it
> >that leaps up and bites at awkward moments.
>
> that's a bit more specific, at least. but as far as i recall, modes were
> considered bad for specific reasons, such as 'users can't see where
> they are, modewise',  'functionality becomes unavailable in a mode',
> 'users have no way to get out of a mode', etc. and most of these
> specific issues have actually been addressed in vim.

Since no-one else has done so, i thought i should mention Cream:

	http://cream.sourceforge.net/featurelist.html

Cream is a customisation of Vim/gVim, providing a more contemporary GUI style 
and single-mode editing (although modal editing is available if one wants 
it)  - with all the power of Vim under the hood. :-)


Alexis.