Newbie question

[Ian Parker]

In article <39b44851.58383856 at news.bright.net>, Jonadab the Unsightly
One <jonadab at bright.net> writes
>sp00fD <sp00fD at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> > This may sound stupid but im realy new to programming and i 
>> > dont know what a text editor is. I need to know what a text 
>> > editor is so i can creat module
>> > files in the future.
>> 
>> Just had to say....
>> 
>> Good god damn thing that you didn't start off with Perl, 'cuz the perl
>> newgroupies would have flamed you 'til the ends of the earth! ;)
>
>Nah.  I've been using Perl for a while and have only just decided
>to learn Python, and I'd have immediately told him to go download
>PFE (Programmer's File Editor)[1] because Notepad is so...  well, 
>you know what Notepad is like.  
>
>Unless he'd crossposted it to about twelve groups
>three or four times each or some nonsense.  THEN I 
>might have, if I'd been in an especially crochety mood, 
>told him to go download vim, heh, heh, heh.  ("Unless 
>you want to use DEBUG, but that's a pain...")  But 
>someone[2] surely would have replied and told him otherwise.
>
>[1] I don't use PFE anymore myself since I learned elisp, 
>    but I wouldn't tell someone who doesn't know what a 
>    text editor is to try to learn Emacs; that's sadistic.
>    Plus these days it's almost fifty megabytes, so you
>    have to really need the power.  
>
>[2] Quite possibly myself a few moments later.
>
>- jonadab

I also recommend PFE, even though it's no longer being enhanced.
-- 
Ian Parker