> If anyone could specifically mention their thoughts on these two
> editors as they relate to HTML coding work, it would help
> finalize my decision?
I used to be hard-core pro-emacs (xemacs, actually). However, one day a
professor of mine mentioned to the class the risk of keyboard injuries
(for people who sit at computers often, i.e. me). He said the repetetive
motion of typing can be hazardous (which is kinda common knowledge), but
he also mentioned that "chording" poses more of a risk to typists.
Chording is pressing more than one key simultaneously.
(X)emacs makes extensive use of chording, even for the most common
commands. With the worry of repetetive stress injury on my mind, I got
vim and installed it. It only took me a day or two to migrate to vim and
be very comfortable with it.
Now, my likes and dislikes: I still like emacs' key sequences better,
despite chording. I'm not too hip on the constant switching between
insert and command mode. But I like vim a lot, too -- I think it's
prettier (color wise), it's syntax highlighting is great; also I like the
fact that vim loads ultra-fast compared to emacs, and the installation
space required by vim is much less than that required by a pretty slim
(i.e. few add-on packages) emacs installation.
Anyway: I've just got into jed, and you might want to give it some
consideration. You won't find it standard on many Unix boxes, but it's
small, fast, and emulates emacs (or a couple other editors, actually). It
has DOS "edit"-like pulldown menus, so it's super-easy to use and learn.
Jed also does syntax highlighting, code formatting, and everything you'd
expect from a "programmer's editor" (which I think is the intent of jed
anyway).
In short, give jed a try, it's nice. http://space.mit.edu/~davis/
(by the way, the author of jed also wrote "slrn," a nice newsreader for
Unix).
Have fun,
Matt
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