Robert Koberg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:51 -0400, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
>> When you have a heterogeneous editing environment, that's because
>> different tools are better for different jobs. Certainly the vast
>> majority
>>
>
> Is there a vastness here ?
>
If we're counting people who have written the specifications that define
the XML family in the W3C, there is a definite vastness in favor of
text-oriented editing environments. That's the population I meant to
describe.
> I have never used XMetal, but I like the ability to not impose editor
> visual restrictions like line breaking in something that should not have
> line breaking.
And conversely, when I painstakingly put that whitespace in a document
to make it easier to edit in the environments I use, I resent editors
that completely trash it, not only making it harder to read, but making
cvs diffs a lot harder to interpret, since virtually every line has
changed by simple virtue of using that particular editor on a file,
changing perhaps one character. The fact of different preferences for
what should happen is precisely the situation referred to in the title
of this thread.
Jonathan
