[WEB4LIB] Re: Column on HTML Editors - still using vi/emacs/pico

[Roy Tennant]

At 8:47 AM -0700 7/9/01, Kenneth Irwin wrote:
>  >Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 22:26:12 -0400
>>From: Blake Carver <btcarver at lisnews.com>
>>Subject: Re: Column on HTML Editors
>>
>>Am I the only one who still uses Vi, emacs and Pico?
>
>Nope -- I still do almost everything in emacs, vi when I have to. I avoid
>pico like the plague because it breaks lines, often leading to death and
>despair. (Our computing dept. once sent in a student to edit the footer on
>my pages; using pico broke the lines in some important places killing some
>of the server-side includes. it was ugly and widespread.)

Another small clarification. Pico can be set to not wrap lines unless 
it bumps up against its rather long line-length barrier. But if your 
code is really without returns, then lord help anyone (including you) 
who tries to view the source in their browser. In my opinion, Pico 
should always default to no line wraps, since a simple control key 
combination will quickly wrap a paragraph when it is needed.
Roy