From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57D82BBAF for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:01:34 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmwCAPVyQkvLOwGUlGdsb2JhbACbUgEBAQEJCxETBLZxhDAE X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,504,1257116400"; d="scan'208";a="53247448" Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au ([203.59.1.148]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 05 Jan 2010 08:01:32 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAD5yQkvLzuai/2dsb2JhbADTCoQwBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.47,504,1257091200"; d="scan'208";a="540955675" Received: from unknown (HELO hendrix.mega-nerd.net) ([203.206.230.162]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out3.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 05 Jan 2010 15:01:29 +0800 Received: from hendrix.mnn (hendrix.mnn [192.168.200.99]) by hendrix.mega-nerd.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 269C0106DD6 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:01:29 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 18:01:29 +1100 From: Erik de Castro Lopo To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Favorite OCaml editor? Message-Id: <20100105180129.82679038.mle+ocaml@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <2a1a1a0c1001042222o1d7b3b66t8e543999985b156c@mail.gmail.com> References: <756daca51001042203w3c6a397cx6a5d594c28855a4d@mail.gmail.com> <2a1a1a0c1001042222o1d7b3b66t8e543999985b156c@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: caml-list@inria.fr Organization: Erik Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 ocaml:01 nedit:01 syntax:01 nedit:01 emacs:01 syntax:01 lacks:01 gedit:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 macros:01 binary:02 erik:04 erik:04 Mike Lin wrote: > I use NEdit with the syntax highlighting patterns available from > n8gray.org. A bonus is that for some reason this works perfectly with > ocaml+twt with no changes. I've been using Nedit since about 1995 (when it was a binary only download) and I agree, Nedit is an amazingly capable editor which is really easy to use (cw say vi and emacs) with great syntax highlighting, configurability, macros and scriptability. I do however have two problems with Nedit; it lacks utf-8 support and it requires the Motif toolkit. On Linux Motif is a PITA because OpenMotif is buggy (and its license is not and cannot OSI approved) and Lesstif is buggy and unmaintained. Nedit is a fantastic editor, but I really can't recommend it. I've been looking closely at Gedit and its getting close the Nedit in features and capabilities but it isn't quite there yet. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/