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Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox, comp.editors
Subject Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?
Date 2025-01-19 14:16 +0100
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On 2025-01-19 09:43, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
> On 19.01.2025 03:56, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-01-19 03:50, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>> On 2025-01-19 01:44, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:29:39 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-01-18 21:55, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 18 Jan 2025 21:19:06 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I know profesional programmers that never used an IDE.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> IDEs only support limited ways of building things. Far better to
>>>>>> have a
>>>>>> general-purpose editor, like Emacs, that is capable of driving any
>>>>>> build
>>>>>> system.
>>>>>
>>>>> A good IDE can do things like set breakpoints in the source code, start
>>>>> the application in debug mode, and run a line a time, while examining
>>>>> the variables (even writing into the variables).
>>>>>
>>>>> Not in the debugger, but in the IDE.
>>>>
>>>> Launch the debugger from within an editor window. Simples.
>>>
>>> That's not it. I don't want to launch the debugger.
>>
>> Look, I understand that you are happy without a fully featured IDE. But
>> similarly, I am asking you to accept that I am not happy without a fully
>> featured IDE.
> 
> Yes. And I think you are right. But we should also sort things a bit.
> An IDE is something completely different than an editor, of course.
> It's a thing where typically tons of different features are combined
> and _strongly interconnected_ to offer an integrated user experience.
> That's a strength of IDEs, and a weakness. What LDO was implicitly
> trying to point out was (I think) that it's good to have tools that
> have a clear task (you don't pay for things that you don't want) and
> a flexible interface (to make use of _powerful_ components). The tool
> or IDE designers, for example, could provide a setting where you can
> choose the (integrated) components. An editing interface, for example,
> is quite simple and clear, and it would in principle be possible to
> use any editor (per user setting) also in an IDE; for the interacting
> features you'd just need a (typically small) "adapter layer". In fact
> there's quite some well designed tools that allow to use own editors.
> The advantages are multifold; it's not only that you can use for the
> individual features specialized components - components that do their
> respective job much better than any IDE-built-in re-implementation of
> a feature (or a "clone"). During the decades of my IT practice I used
> IDEs twice. The problems I had with them was, for one, that I had to
> use exactly what was supported by the IDE, and use of any powerful
> tools to efficiently perform tasks that I was used to was impossible
> or overly cumbersome by clumsy workarounds. For someone who is used
> to do _arbitrarily complex_ editing functions in an _efficient_ way
> (with powerful editors) it's really a pain to work with common IDEs.
> But many people I observed were doing quite _primitive editing_; they
> don't know better given all the GUI based primitive editors that we
> typically often find as inferior ad hoc editing (re-)implementation
> and that folks got used to. With IDEs it's often just a mouse orgy of
> clicking things together in a mixture of mouse/menu and text input,
> no editing any more. The efficiency of keyboard(-only) input (e.g. in
> editors) has to be compensated by other means (like auto-completion).
> I think that's one reason why the opinions are so strong and why the
> permeability from one group/type of users/programmers to the other
> is so difficult. I'd only have wished that folks who speak about the
> pros and cons [of IDEs and powerful editors] would not be completely
> ignorant and full of prejudice; ignorance AND prejudice is a very bad
> (and in Real Life topics even dangerous) combination.
> 
>> Both things are true for many programmers.
> 
> Janis
> 
> PS (as an aside): While IDEs usually try to increase their feature
> set for a yet better support of their dedicated tasks Emacs is often
> [humorously] despised (especially by Vi users) as not being an editor
> but more of an IDE.

Or an operating system :-D

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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  Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Herbert Kleebauer <klee@unibwm.de> - 2025-01-15 11:42 +0100
    Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-15 11:28 +0000
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      Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-15 13:36 +0100
        Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-15 18:10 +0000
          Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-16 23:08 +0100
            Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-17 04:28 +0000
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                Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-17 18:37 +0000
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            Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-16 02:16 +0000
        Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-18 06:47 +0000
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                Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-18 20:55 +0000
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                Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-19 00:44 +0000
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                Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-19 03:56 +0100
                Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-01-19 09:43 +0100
                Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-19 14:16 +0100
                Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-19 21:27 +0000
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                Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-20 14:00 +0100
                Re: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-21 04:48 +0000
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                Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-01-24 18:03 +0000
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                Re: Strange questions (Was: How to edit HTML source file on Windows in one step (not two)?) "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-25 14:39 +0100
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