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From: m...@distorted.org.uk (Mark Wooding)
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Subject: Re: do you want a emacs cookbook?
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Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:38:13 +0000

Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> writes:

> I was saying that all editors I've tried which target programmers have
> a project file tree on the left and output windows on the bottom.

Your experience of other editors is obviously so meagre as to be
worthless.  I don't know of any versions of vi which behave as you
describe; and certainly none of the editors I used on an IBM mainframe
did either.

Indeed, I think you might be confusing `editor' with `integrated
development environment'.  Such things are also prone to insisting on
showing you only one file at a time, filling your screen with junk other
than the text you're actually working on, and making it hideously
inconvenient to work on more than one `project' at a time, whatever that
means.

> OTOH, Emacs is known to being used by programmers, still setting up
> such a configuration is awkward, then popups are disrupting your
> windows layout all the time, ecc.  Confusing, confusing.

It sounds to me like you want BlubEdit.  It's over there.

-- [mdw]