Re: Editor for Linux

[Phil Gregory <pgregory@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 05:55:04PM -0700, Chris Rehm wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2001 05:26 pm, James Rich wrote:
>
> > Well you can always write an extension to emacs (emacs is an acronym for
> > Extensible something something something something) so it is designed to
> > grow to meet your needs.  O'Reilly publishes a book on writing emacs
> > extensions.  An RPG IV mode might be a cool addition (/me gets an idea...)
>
> Well, I know emacs is extensible. It is a rather powerful editor. But then,
> there are a lot of powerful editors. I was just looking to get to using one
> instead of creating one.

FWIW, I went looking for an emacs mode for RPG a couple of years ago and
didn't find anything.  Someone might have written one in the meantime, but
I wouldn't be surprised if no one has.

Emacs is extensible, but writing a good RPG mode would be a rather large
undertaking.