Emacs, syntax highlighting
I’ve always been partial to VI, but I’ve been forced to use Emacs for a class I’m taking this semester, and it turns out that I really love Emacs – even more than VI. The stateless model of editing is what I’ve been accustom to (coming from Windows), and it just makes more sense to me. I generally don’t think, “now I’m in edit mode, it’s ok to type.” Not that I think this is wrong, it’s just not natural for me.
Also, I’ve recently made a Emacs “Major Mode” for Berkeley Logo. It was amazingly easy, I actually made it last night in about 2 hours. It is essentially a set of regular expressions bound to keyword types that Emacs knows, written in Lisp. I wrote it with Berkeley Logo in mind, but there’s nothing that should stop it from working for any version of Logo.
I will post it as soon as I get the kinks worked out.
