(off topic) Re: [R] Notepad

[Emmanuel Paradis]

At 21:57 28/02/01 +0100, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
>Jim Lemon <bitwrit at ozemail.com.au> writes:
>
>> 3) The usual number of responses spent a lot of time dissing NotePad and
>> advertising their favorite editor.  As various contributors noted,
>> NotePad actually does most of the things that some people said it
>> doesn't.  Positive advice (like the fact that NotePad _always_ saves in
>> plain text) is usually helpful.  Negative advice always reminds me of
>> the marketing practices of some software companies.
>
>Hmm, well, by your defs
>
>negative x 2:
>Notepad conks out at 64 K or thereabouts

Not on my NT4.0 system: I can open files > 1 Mb.

>Notepad doesn't do search and replace

Not on my NT4.0 system: I can do search/replace.

It's true that NotePad is not so bad for someone who starts with R, and I
used it during some time (and still does). But I recently discovered ESS
with XEmacs on a Solaris machine, and I must admit that it is _really_
different. After all, it would be good for a beginner to have the features
of ESS (syntax highlitning, buffer execution, automatic indentation, ...)
rather than waiting to be experienced with R. (I seem to remember that the
R-FAQ recommends ESS.)

Emmanuel Paradis
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