Re: Tcl Cross Platform Editors - your top five.

On Jun 13, 7:34 am, Patrick Finnegan <finnegan.patr...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I need a light weight Tcl cross platform editor for use on Windows,
Solaris, Aix and Linux. I can't compile Vim on some of these
platforms for various reasons and Vi is not sufficient. I browsed the
list of Tcl compatible editors onhttp://wiki.tcl.tk/1184. Anybody
care to name their top five from the list so I can evaluate them.

Thanks.

Emacs is the best and should compile and or have packages for all
platforms you
suggest. It simply is the best editor. The tcl-mode give auto
indenting , highlighting and the templating package http://wiki.tcl.tk/19616
makes coding extremely fast. Emacs comes with numerous standard
features that are incredibly useful and as far as I can tell not
available in other editors. Four I will mention. The remote editing
feature, both terminal and windowed modes, multiple input editing, and
rectangular cut and paste. If you can ssh into a box then you can edit
any file on that computer from your own. When you edit then save it
will automatically copy the file back over the network to its original
location. Think of it as a virtual file system. Emacs comes in two
forms a windowed (either X-windows or MS dos windows ) or in a
terminal mode. You can also have multiple frames open at one time and
even on different machines ( X-windows only). What this allows you to
do is have a partner on another machine and interactively edit one
file at the same time. Finally, something that you will use everyday
is rectangular cut and paste. Many people poo-poo this feature but
once you've used it you cannot do without. I should mention that it
is not strictly for tcl but it has modes and extensive addon packages
for virtually all other programing languages.

I should also mention that emacs keybindings are the default for the
text widget also.

.

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