[Zope] color-syntax editor for dtml

[Jason Earl]

Now, I realize that text editors are a highly personal affair, but I
can't for the life of me figure out why it is that Emacs doesn't get
more attention, especially amongst Zopistas.  Emacs will happily edit
Zope objects via FTP, it has intelligent modes for SQL, DTML, HTML, XML,
and Python (and a whole lot more).  In fact, Emacs' Python mode and
PSGML (xml mode) are really hard to beat.  Modern versions of Emacs are
also about as point-and-clicky as you could want (in a text editor
anyway), and there is even a very useable vi emulation mode for folks
that are allergic to Emacs-style key chording.  Not too mention the fact
that Emacs runs on everything that can even remotely be considered as a
"computer."  Approximately a million years ago Emacs had the downside of
being a resource hog, but compared to most recent development packages
Emacs is positively svelte.

Sorry for the rant, Emacs made me do it.

Jason

On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:02, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
> Casey, it looks good but I've made it a point to try to keep XServers off my
> system (Win2000) if I can.  Cygwin is fine, I've got it, but I've never been
> happy with XServers (though it's been a few uears since last I used one).
> So I'm going to give nedit a miss for now.
> 
> Tom P
> 
> [Casey Duncan]
> 
> On Wednesday 01 May 2002 02:16 pm, Thomas B. Passin allegedly wrote:
> >
> > I don't know that you can get it to recognize dtml files with no
> extensions,
> > but you can manually set the document type for a specific document to be
> > whatever you like.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tom P
> 
> This is one of the things I really like about nedit. It can introspect the
> file to guess its type. Introspecting dtml (and zpt) is trivial, so it works
> very well for extension-less Zope scripts.
> 
> Nedit is free, runs on most plaforms, although not natively under windows
> (it
> requires cygwin). It is however, very intuitive to use.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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