Ma.gnolia shut down two months too soon (old delicious competitor)

Re:Ma.gnolia shut down two months too soon (old delicious co... by Groxx on Thursday December 16, 2010 @11:50PM (#2015218)

Maybe it's just me, but N++ seems to have far fewer abilities, extensions, etc than Vim or Emacs; and what's there is buggier and hasn't been fixed in years. It seems to be dying slowly and reluctantly. It's a very basic text editor with a few neat tricks and a lower learning curve, and that's about it.

Try a modern editor. Like vim, emacs, or textmate/e-texteditor, and look into what people have built for them. Then tell me you think N++ is more capable.

edit: bah! misreading sucks. delete that last line. Now I need a time machine :\

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Re:Ma.gnolia shut down two months too soon (old delicious co... by sp4rki on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:41AM (#2015354)

That's what I said bro. I'm a Vim user myself (and have been for a year too many) and I think it's the best thing since hot chocolate bread. I just used a semi complicated macro to edit 800 lines of a CVS document, which took me around 3 minutes to record, but saved me hours of work I would have had to spend manually doing most of it in Textmate (which I think is a really good editor, just not in the same league as Vim or Emacs) or any other modern editor for that matter.

As a Vim user I feel compelled to mix a shameless plug for my editor of choice in a conversation every time the topic shows it's head. Anyway, I think you misread my comment. I love Vim and I don't even run Windows (to run Notepad++).

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Re:Ma.gnolia shut down two months too soon (old delicious co... by Groxx on Friday December 17, 2010 @12:56AM (#2015386)

Gerblagh, you're entirely right, my mistake.

Must be the finals-studying. I think my brain is going mushy.

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