On Thursday 18 October 2007 09:05:48 Mark Rogers wrote:
When I start doing more with XML (which I really should do)
XML has its place.
I'll look at <oXygen /> again.
I have some XML geek acquaintances (mainly the TEI[1] people) and I know they use <oXygen /> a lot.
I'm a bit surprised my quests for a good GUI text editor and XML viewer have struggled under Linux so far, one area I thought I'd be spoilt for choice! Maybe that's the problem, too much choice, too little focus. Or do "real programmers" still use text-mode editors?
Far be it from me to speak for real programmers, but I use ordinary emacs in a terminal emulator. And I know that I frequently get slated by other ALUG members for this; they argue that vi is a much better choice. A superficial glance at the Web seems to suggest that most people who know what a text editor is for prefer (or like to claim that they prefer) vi [2]. Interestingly, I've just spent a few minutes Googling for similar surveys but haven't found anything citable. Perhaps text editors are just too fundamental a tool for people either to make a big fuss about them (though emacs/vi flame wars would suggest otherwise) or to spend time developing new ones.
Cheers, Richard
[1] http://www.tei-c.org/ [2] http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/08/poll-shows-majority-favor-vi-as-their....