(off topic) Re: [R] Notepad

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Emmanuel Paradis wrote:

> At 21:57 28/02/01 +0100, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> >Jim Lemon <bitwrit at ozemail.com.au> writes:
> >
> >> 3) The usual number of responses spent a lot of time dissing NotePad and
> >> advertising their favorite editor.  As various contributors noted,
> >> NotePad actually does most of the things that some people said it
> >> doesn't.  Positive advice (like the fact that NotePad _always_ saves in
> >> plain text) is usually helpful.  Negative advice always reminds me of
> >> the marketing practices of some software companies.
> >
> >Hmm, well, by your defs
> >
> >negative x 2:
> >Notepad conks out at 64 K or thereabouts
>
> Not on my NT4.0 system: I can open files > 1 Mb.
>
> >Notepad doesn't do search and replace
>
> Not on my NT4.0 system: I can do search/replace.
>
> It's true that NotePad is not so bad for someone who starts with R, and I
> used it during some time (and still does). But I recently discovered ESS
> with XEmacs on a Solaris machine, and I must admit that it is _really_
> different. After all, it would be good for a beginner to have the features
> of ESS (syntax highlitning, buffer execution, automatic indentation, ...)
> rather than waiting to be experienced with R. (I seem to remember that the
> R-FAQ recommends ESS.)

Just to remind people that ESS and FSF Emacs run on Windows too.  (There is
or was also an Xemacs port to Windows, but I have very little experience
with it.)

I use Emacs as an editor, not out a great love of its interface, but
because it works in exactly the same way on all the OSes and interfaces I
need to use.

-- 
Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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