[ale] Code editors

[Byron A Jeff]

> 
> Byron A Jeff wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > NEdit does a good job of syntax highlighting and is otherwise a nice editor to
> > > work with.
> >
> > It only has a quirk or two that drives me completely nuts. The first is that
> > it doesn't save font preferences. While you can change the font in one
> > window, if you open up another, it comes up in the default font. The other
> > is that it has the bad habit of resetting the file permissions on save,
> > striping any exec bits that are set. This means that for shell and perl scripts
> > that you have to reset the exec file permissions every time you save.
> > Solve these two problems and I find it a capable editor.
> 
> That's the beauty of open source software!
> It does seem to have a font option under the defaults menu - are you sure you've
> adjusted it in the right place, and that you saved the defaults after setting them?
> 

Nope. I really don't use it enough to worry. However I teach students that
do use it. So that's a helpful piece of info.


> BTW, you and anyone else at gatech, would I be best off getting a dual PII, an
> Alpha, or an UltraSPARC? I'm an incoming freshman this August, and I intend to
> major in computer science. I have no intention of running Windows except as an
> absolute necessity.

Personally I think that anything other that commodity PC hardware should be
used only in extreme circumstances. And honestly you'll probably not need
the crushing power of dual anything unless you're just a speed junkie.

Vernard and I discuss loosely coupled multiprocessor machines from time to
time. I just just running a cost analysis on a 400Mhz/MB/128 MB ram combo.
Clocks in at $250 a board. for $1500 bucks you can have 4 boards, 100 Mbit
switched eithernet, and a decent video system. With a small amount of work
it should be possible to rack it up in something the size of a stereo even
adding blinkly lights. Need more horsepower? Add another board. The only thing
that's left is working out the programming an Beowulf gives an huge jump on
that aspect.

Just something to think about. At this point I'd need a really good reason
to look somewhere other than PC hardware.

BAJ