emacs, great if you dont mind coding it all yourself, in which case you could have coded an application directly for what you need, instead of it being a plugin

emacs, great if you dont mind coding it all yourself, in which case you could have coded an application directly for what you need, instead of it being a plugin to a text editor. but I guess its cool to use, so theres that intangible piece of nubbins to hold onto at least