RE: any good programming editors for ESQL and Unix

I like the fact that emacs can emulate vi. Will >===== Original Message From "Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> ===== >hanhwe_kim@yahoo.com wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> here is a question for people doing ESQL/C on Unix. >> >> are there any good programming editors/environments for writing >> ESQL/C source code on Unix. We have Hp Unix and are using >> <cringe> vi right now. We have been meaning to modernize >> but have not gotten around to shopping. >> >> any ideas on good editors and other static source code analysis >> tools such as cross-reference generators designed with ESQL/C in >> mind? Or perhaps some macro packages that can be used with >> text editors? > >I like emacs myself. I use both emacs and vi depending on the job. I >find that >for things I do EVERY DAY emacs is a more versatile tool. I can >compile, >edit, debug, bring you back to the point of error in the code, handle >tags, etc. I >use the C/C++ mode module for ESQL/C and just included .ec in the list >of >recognized file extentions. I wants to use progressive indentation on >my longer >SQL statements and I like them lined up under the SELECT keyword but >that is >a minor annoyance and I only have to deal with it if I have to do a >global or >block reindent which is rare since the emacs auto indents as I type. > >I like vi for the things that I do rarely in part because many of these >are >line-oriented and so fit vi's sed oriented command structure and in part >because >some of the nmeumonics are better. On the other hand the online help >stinks. > >Art S. Kagel ------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------