[LBo] Scripting with a gui editor??

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Jisao wrote:

> 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.

    You can get syntax highlighting with non-GUI editors. I use emacs,
    which can be used in GUI or CLI mode (not that it really makes much
    difference).

>  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).

-- Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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    Author: Shell Scripting Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (2005,
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