XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: newyana@invalid.nospam   
      
   On 1/18/2025 3:50 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
      
   > Is it as simple as the ELisp script I referenced? Remember, that   
   > integrates into the editor, so it is just a few keystrokes away.   
   >   
      
      That's interesting. So in a way you're programming the editor   
   yourself, to whatever extent you find useful. I can see how that   
   would be appealing for a particular usage.   
      
      I don't think we're really disagreeing. We're talking about   
   different things. You have a very specialized usage, you're   
   capable of adapting your editor for personal optimization. Those   
   optimizations are more useful to you than specialized functionality.   
   However, your usage is extremely rare. Very few people are   
   coding in a dozen languages and very few are capable, or even   
   interested in, customizing an editor to the point of writing a lot   
   of its functionality.   
      
      I was talking about using a generic vs specialized editor   
   for a particular language. (In this case HTML.) The general   
   editors provide no specialized functions other than rudimentary   
   colorcoding and line numbers. Adding something like word count   
   is a plain text function.   
      
      In my HTML editor, for example, I can browse for a file and   
   then auto-insert an IMG tag without having to check the pixel   
   dimensions. I can display an image, click any   
   point, and get the hex code for that point, which can be very   
   useful for background and outline coloring. I can display a colorpicker   
   and get the hex code for a selected color. I can toggle to display   
   the webpage, hover over any point, and find the class/ID for   
   that element. I can quickly see a list of possible attributes for   
   an HTML tag.... Those are all things that make the job easier.   
      
      That might not be of much use to you. Maybe you couldn't care   
   less. But if you did a lot of HTML work, those functions would be   
   big hassle-savers.   
      
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