[LBo] Scripting with a gui editor??
Jisao
dimark at securenet.net
Wed Dec 20 20:47:57 CET 2006
Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Tim wrote:
>>
>> I come from the gui age and while I can understand there a lot of
>> power to be
>> had from the cli sometimes I just want to be able to write a quick
>> script in
>> something like kedit but I have a couple of questions?
>>
>> If I use kedit then should I use
>
> The editor has nothing to do with it. Any editor (or even word
> processor) can create a text file. And why would it make any
> difference if you use a GUI editor or a CLI-based editor? You
> have to type the script whichever type of editor you use.
Whatever little scripts I wrote, I always used a GUI editor, one that
colors the syntax of the script. It's a habit I got from editing web
pages in >code< mode. I personally used kate, but I have been known to
edit some scripts even with wordpad at times (that, however, I would not
recommend as a good habit).
Jisao
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