Friday, February 12, 2010

[tnsedwz] A good text editor

What features do we want of a good text editor?  Purely text, not anything smarter like program code or structured documents.

A good macro language

Change the displayed font and size -- easier on the eyes.

Word wrap

Kill ring

Cut and paste

Location registers and mark stack

Unlimited undo and redo

Find and replace

Incremental search (Isearch)

Regular expressions

Split screen views of the same file

Of course, these are a subset of Emacs features I cannot live without.  What others?

This is motivated by being thus far unable to find a good text editor for Android.

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