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Apologies if I keep pruning the CC list but I doubt people need as many repeated messages. I like editors that let me decide which features I want to use at a given time. Color contexts are fine. I normally don't need them but it's been a while since I had to use the kinds of complex DTDs we used for IETM work. Auto-complete is one I would turn off pretty quickly. I make more mistakes with that than I do otherwise. Context-hints, such as code editors that tell me which methods are available when typing in a class.method(s) call are useful. I see a lot of Foxpro. Fox is good at that and enabling local user customization. Then it will autocomplete something like SET STEP ON without one noticing it and one types in SET STEP ON ON. Of course it complains at interpret or compile time, but it's annoying. The most amazing thing to me in this thread is how many editors there actually are. If ever there was a sea change from SGML to XML, that's the one. len From: Rick Marshall [mailto:rjm@z...] personally i like the context highlighting editors that don't do anything except highlight context. so eg a tag is in a color and you know you haven't entered the closing > because the whole page is in a ghastly cyan. or red if you haven't terminated a string, etc. not a bad compromise for experts. saves time without interfering :)
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