David House wrote:
Andrew Coppin writes:
It's a text-mode editor.
With graphical support.
Really? When did that happen? (And if it's now graphical, can you really still call it "Emacs"? I mean, if you write a GUI application that does what sed does, would it still be "sed"?)
quod erat demonstrandum.
Please don't be so quick to jump to conclusions like that.
You make it sound as if I haven't tried this stuff...
or an interactive debugger,
As previously mentioned, debugging in Haskell hasn't really reached maturity yet,
Yeah, pitty that... (Again, I was going to try compiling HEAD to play with this - and then I realised you need Linux to do it, so I haven't got round to it yet.)
or any of those other features that require a GUI.
Perhaps you ought to revise your opinions on what constitutes a GUI.
Well, part 1 would be being *graphical*. I really have no time for ugly cryptic ASCII art "graphical" UIs... I just like being able to *see* what's happening. Is that too much to ask?