Re: text editors for 4GL, Informix SQL ?
This was sent direct to me, but I think it should have been aimed at the list (seeing as I'm not the one asking the question!). ----- Begin Included Message ----- From zygmunt@ernie.icslab.agh.edu.pl Tue Apr 23 09:41:37 1996 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 10:40:57 +0200 From: Maciej Zygmunt <zygmunt@ernie.icslab.agh.edu.pl> To: rt10hp@csl.gov.uk (Richard Thomas) Subject: Re: text editors for 4GL, Informix SQL ? > Path: galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl!cyfronet!uw.edu.pl!news.nask.org.pl!wariat.org!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!slider.bme.ri.ccf.org!kira.cc.uakron.edu!neoucom.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!not-for-mail > From: rt10hp@csl.gov.uk (Richard Thomas) > Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix > Date: 19 Apr 1996 07:08:08 -0400 > Organization: Mailing List Gateway > Lines: 32 > Sender: walt@mathcs.emory.edu > Distribution: world > Reply-To: rt10hp@csl.gov.uk (Richard Thomas) > NNTP-Posting-Host: cssun.mathcs.emory.edu > X-Informix-List-ID: <list.9471> > > > :-) > :-) > falout@open.hr (Andrej Falout) writes: > :-) > Hi, > :-) > > :-) > I wonder , witch text editors you people use for writing 4GL ? > :-) > Is there an 4GL mode for Emacs, or some other editor? > :-) > I was using Norton Editor (NE), but I wish for something more. > :-) On Unix? > :-) Use vi. It may be hard the first time, but if you make the effort > :-) to learn it, it's realy good. Particularly if you use a good terminal > :-) emulator under MS Windows (or on Motif) so you get multiple windows > :-) with cut and paste between them. > :-) > :-) Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no > :-) NM Data AS, Postbox 9090, Gronland, 0133 Oslo, Norway > :-) My opinions are those of my company > :-) > > OTOH, if you're using SUNOS/Solaris on a SPARCstation, try setting DBEDIT > to textedit - this brings up a pretty good text editor in a separate > window - you can select stuff with your mouse, copy, cut, paste, > search for text, include other files etc, etc. It doesn't have > anything like the learning curve that vi has (ie it's simple to > use!), and in my experience, it really pi**es professional IT people > off when they log in as you to work on a problem. I would imagine > that other flavours of unix have similar editors. If you're using > a Nintendo (sorry, I mean a PC), forget it :-) > > Just a thought! > > Richard. Hi, There is 4gl-mode.el for emacs, it works for me pretty well, of course I did some customization for it too. Maciek. ----- End Included Message -----