[Cialug] Text editor

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

It is plain emacs. I'm under the (possibly mistaken) impression that 
modern versions of emacs don't need mule since it has been integrated. 
I'm using version 21.4 installed as part of Debian Etch. There doesn't 
seem to be a separate emacs-mule package. Here's what the apt-cache 
search commands find on my system:

$ apt-cache search japan | grep editor
ipe - drawing editor for creating figures in PDF or PS formats
qgo - Go client and full featured SGF editor
xemacs21-gnome-mule - highly customizable text editor -- Mule binary
xemacs21-mule - highly customizable text editor -- Mule binary
$ apt-cache search utf-8 | grep editor
gedit - light-weight text editor
gedit-dev - light-weight text editor
geresh - A simple multilingual text editor with utf-8 & bidi support
mousepad - simple Xfce oriented text editor
ne - Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor
poedit - cross-platform gettext catalog editor

Perhaps i should try xemacs; i expect it would be quite similar to what 
i am used to. I've never used xemacs, but my understanding is that it 
is just a fork of emacs. I don't know why there needs to be 2 variants 
of emacs floating around, but if it works i won't complain.

On Thursday 21 December 2006 08:57, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
>is this vanilla emacs, or emacs-mule (apt-cache search japan | grep
> editor)?
>
>apt-cache search utf-8 | grep editor shows:
>gedit
>geresh
>ne
>poedit
>
>-barry
>
>Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>> I'm looking for a recommendation for a programming editor. I usually
>> use emacs. But now i need an editor that can handle Japanese
>> characters and save the resulting file using utf-8 encoding. Emacs
>> handles Japanese just fine. And emacs handles saving in utf-8, with
>> the exception that it can't handle the subset of utf-8 that is
>> needed by Asian languages. If a file has Japanese characters in it,
>> emacs won't save as utf-8 and insists on another encoding (such as
>> iso-2022-jp or euc-jp). Any suggestions for another editor that i
>> should look at?
>>
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Dan Ramaley                            Dial Center 118, Drake University
Network Programmer/Analyst             2407 Carpenter Ave
+1 515 271-4540                        Des Moines IA 50311 USA