GUI Editor?

[Riley Berton]

Editors that run under X are generally very good.  However, I have always had one gripe:  the lack of useful macro expansion.  On all editors that I have looked at (and they are numerous) I have yet to see "space bar" expansion of macros so that the usage of macros is easier than just typing out the contents of the macro.  For instance, if I wanted to produce this:

if ( <cursor should end up here> ) {

}

and wanted to use a macro to do it, I would need to bind that sequence to some weird (usually unconfigurable) key combination, making it just as much as a PITA as typing it in the first place.

Ideally, an editor should be able to figure out what I mean based on a few user preset macros and the "space bar" would expand the macro, so that typing:

if<space>

would result in my example above.  I have been searching for this feature for quite some time in many editors.  

I currently use NEdit and was able to write a macro for that editor that used the space bar as it's key, however, it ran very slowly and made the editor less responsive so I had to turn it off.

Does anyone out there know of an 'X' based editor that does what I outlined?

riley

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:14:32 -0500 (EST)
Christopher Murtagh <chris@music.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Drew Lane wrote:
> >I'm really looking for a non console text editor that will run under X
> >and KDE.
> 
> Gvim, Xemacs, Bluefish, Kate... all of these are GUI type editors that run
> under X. My preference is Gvim, but unlike some people's my choice isn't a
> religious one. A while back, I had to learn a common *nix editor and only
> had the time/brainpower to learn one. I chose vi because it is installed
> on just about *every* unix out there. I do know a lot of people who use
> emacs and love it just as much, so I would suggest learning either of
> these two.
> 
>  I go so used to vi/vim/Gvim, that I can't use BBEdit anymore in MacOS (I
> keep on getting extra 'dd's 'i's and ':w' peppered everywhere) and I now
> use Gvim in MacOS X (but I rarely use MacOS X). I used to think that
> BBEdit was the one killer app that would be impossible to replace on any
> other OS. Guess I was wrong on that one.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
> Note: vi is the old original editor, vim is Vi iMproved, and Gvim is
> Graphical Vim.
> 
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