Programmers Editor

[Bernhard Reiter]

This is a commercial annoucement.
is it welcome here at comp.lang.python?


Let's compare it to "vim".
http://www.vim.org

On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 08:27:55 +1000, Jussi Jumppanen <jussij at zeusedit.com> wrote:
>The  Programmer's is designed to run on the
>Windows 95, Windows 98 or NT platforms.
vim runs great on Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT, besides it
also runs fine on macs, amiga, OS/2 and almost any other unix, even with
gui support.

>So what is new:
>    1) New syntax highlighting engine should now support almost
>          any language.
vim does highlight almost any language.

>    2) Comes with pre-configured syntax highlighting for:
>        C/C++, Java, Perl, HTML, Python, Pascal

Vim comes predefined with over 150 languages, among them are:

ada ahdl amiga asm asmh8300 asn atlas ave awk basic bib btm c clean
clipper cobol colortest cpp csh css cterm dcl diff dosbatch dosini
dracula dtd eiffel elmfilt esqlc expect exports fortran fvwm gdb gnuplot
gp haskell help hitest html idl inform java javacc javascript jgraph
lace lex lhaskell lilo lisp lite lotos lss lua m4 mail make man manual
maple matlab mf mib model modula2 mp msql muttrc nasm nosyntax nroff
objc ocaml pascal pcap pccts perl php3 phtml pike plsql po pod postscr
pov procmail prolog ptcap purifylog python radiance rc rebol rexx sather
scheme sdl sed sgml sh sicad simula skill slang slrnrc slrnsc sm smil
spec sql squid st synload syntax tags tcl tex tf tsalt uil vb verilog
vgrindefs vhdl vim viminfo vrml whitespace xdefaults xmath xml xpm yacc
z8a zsh

	
>       and is easily to almost any other language.
Same for vim.

>    3) New plugable scripting modules allows you to write Zeus
>          macro scripts using the Python, LUA or Small C macro
>          languages.

Yeah, you can use python, perl and guile and I guess even more
to script vim.

>    4) New configuration model now makes it even easier for you
>          to configure Zeus to do just what you want.
Old configuration of vim still is good, so you always could do what you
wanted.

>    5) Enhanced compiler, project and tool support.
vim supports jumping around in the source files (ctags) and to error
messages, too.
 But no project management or syntax checking.

>    6) Improved keyboard mapping.
Was good in vim all the time.

>You can download the shareware version from:

Free to use version with source code at http://www.vim.org/dist.html
That's about 95$ cheaper than zeus.

>For some screen shots of Zeus in action goto:
For vim screenshots:
http://www.vim.org/pics.html#screenshots

	Bernhard

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