Unicode-aware text editor; suggestions?

[Pavel Zaitsev]

Madison Kelly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>   I really, really hope this doesn't become an emacs vs. vi thread... 
> I don't want to use something that takes a religious convertion and 
> weeks or study to use. :p

<snip>

Hi,
I would think editor is a very personal tool, so choosing one can be 
demanding choice. For me being thrifty
with my time and reluctance to learn new but same things (new editors on 
other platforms) I have chosen vi,
and vim now. Emacs is almost as good of the choice but it is not as 
readily available everywhere and
configuration vary wildly. But you still can install emacs on quite a 
number of platforms. If you are a perl/shell coder
you will come to appreciate capacity of vim to mix and match commands to 
increase your productivity.
I use regular expressions on making html tables and files all the time. 
Say you got some fields in a table , you paste
in the list strip anything funny with s/ *// and s/\(\w*\) *.*/\1/g or 
some such thing and then decorate stripped
fields with s/\(\w*\)/<option>\1<\/option>/g
this is very trivial descriptions of vim capabilities. I can't really 
comment emacs, but I am sure it has its fans as well.

As for using vim with utf-8 you have to compile it with multibyte 
support, and set up your terminal correctly.
I had to recompile the kernel with utf-8 support, update locales, load 
proper fonts, and recompile some
applications with utf-8 support. Which basically amounted to recompiling 
slang and recompiling things that
depended on it. Postgres as well, mind you.
Since you are looking into new editor I'd highly reccomend vim, since it 
practically everywhere and it works. Emacs
is a bigger editor for lispy people. You should look it as well. I will 
have something of Unicode support.
good luck,
my 2c.
pavel
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