[OT] JavaScript editor?

[Alex Tweedly]

Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Since it started as a fork of MC's open source editor, my custom text 
> editor originally had support for emacs key bindings.  But recently I 
> was cleaning up the code and opted to remove that support, since I've 
> not come across anyone (except Scott Raney <g>) who's used emacs in 
> the last decade.
>
> How often do you use emacs?
>
> Do others here use it?
>
> How essential would you consider the option of supporting emacs key 
> bindings in a 21st century text editor?
I use emacs every day. It's my editor of choice for editing html, text 
and (for now at least) .irev files.

When (if) tRev gets support for editing script files like irev (and 
assuming it has the kind of revtalk features I'd expect) then I will 
most likely switch to it for 95% of editing .irev files, and only use 
emacs occasionally. I'll still use it for text, html, etc.

"essential" ?  No.
"very nice" ?  Yes.

I haven't tried your custom editor, or indeed MC, but I assume it's only 
basic emacs key bindings that are supported. If you have support for "by 
example"  macro definition, programmable macros, etc. then I am *truly* 
impressed  :-)   But even basic key bindings / features is pretty 
helpful - that lets me think about what text I want, and my fingers make 
it happen without the brain being involved.

-- Alex