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Not the author, but I'm guessing what he means is that he wants a simple text editor that covers his required features and not much else.
by koralatov 10y ago
Not the author, but I'm guessing what he means is that he wants a simple text editor that covers his required features and not much else.
- dietrichepp 10y agoI've noticed that if you add "and not much else" to a list of desired features, you end up shooting yourself in the foot. This applies to almost anything that you can get off the shelf. There seems to be a common pathology among computer programmers to hate "superfluous" features in their tools and libraries. I'm not talking about people who are skeptical of potential complexity, but people who dismiss outright solutions that meet their specifications closely because of the extra baggage they don't like. This attitude has spawned a number of cool, lightweight tools, but it's also wasted a lot of time that could have been spent doing something more productive, like memorizing Pokemon. Like, "Emacs is too big." Yeah? But Firefox isn't?