Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 11, 2007 04:56 PM
Do we really need yet another editor?
If I'm writing a letter, I use OpenOffice (or whatever your favorite word processor is). It's got the pretty formatting, fonts, etc. and it generates ODF output and it can import some other WP formats.
If I'm writing code, I use emacs (or vi/vim, or whatever your favorite programmer's editor is). It lets me run the compiler from within the editor, go to the line where the compiler found an error, etc.
Both of these are "text processing" but they're completely different tasks and specialized tools make sense. Which of them is this new thing competing with? And why is it better? Do we really need yet another editor or word processor? If the author wants to make a useful contribution, why doesn't he fix one of the bugs in OpenOffice, thereby helping millions of users instead of dozens?
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What's the point of this?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 11, 2007 04:56 PMDo we really need yet another editor?
If I'm writing a letter, I use OpenOffice (or whatever your favorite word processor is). It's got the pretty formatting, fonts, etc. and it generates ODF output and it can import some other WP formats.
If I'm writing code, I use emacs (or vi/vim, or whatever your favorite programmer's editor is). It lets me run the compiler from within the editor, go to the line where the compiler found an error, etc.
Both of these are "text processing" but they're completely different tasks and specialized tools make sense. Which of them is this new thing competing with? And why is it better? Do we really need yet another editor or word processor? If the author wants to make a useful contribution, why doesn't he fix one of the bugs in OpenOffice, thereby helping millions of users instead of dozens?
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