XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 03:01:22 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote :   
      
      
   >> Because "editor" to me is a text editor ...   
   >   
   > Emacs is an editor, and not just a text editor. I have successfully used   
   > it to edit non-text files.   
      
   Decades ago I wrote a tutorial for how to use MSDOS DEBUG to edit files.   
      
   Funny story... while I have tons of editors for all sorts of file types,   
   the only two editors I habitually use on Windows are gVim & Notepad++.   
      
   The use of gVim is obvious for anyone else who came up through the ranks   
   *before* Emacs was a thing; but the use of Notepad++ is less obvious   
   perhaps. Once is a great while, I use a hex editor or qedit on text files.   
      
   What I love about Notepad++ is its shortcuts.xml substitution capability is   
   fantastic, such that in a keystroke sequence, you can wipe out all the   
   special "curly" characters to replace them with standard characters.   
      
   For me, this is important as I do a lot of cutting and pasting, and yet I   
   want all the characters to be consistent. Plus, I don't own a newsreader.   
      
   My "newsreader" is simply a set of telnet-based scripts long ago ported   
   from Centos and then to Ubuntu and then to Windows over the many years.   
      
   For example, I don't see headers (so they're meaningless to me), as all I   
   see is the body of the message (with an attribution line at the top).   
      
   So I don't even know who I am, nor whom I'm responding to unless I   
   purposefully keep track - as what matters to me is only what someone says.   
      
   I do a lot of pastes from research, which I do to purposefully help others.   
    a. I run the research & copy pertinent details   
    b. (if necessary) I paste research into Notepad++ to clean it up   
    c. Then I paste it into the gVim session & send the article via telnet   
      
   Special characters show up funnily in the vi editor so Notepad++ replaces   
   them in a quick keystroke sequence for pasting back into the gVim session.   
      
   The fact I type better than most secretaries do helps along with the fact   
   that gVim is the most efficient hands-on editor that I know of for Windows.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)