Basic HTML version of Foils prepared January 15 1997

Foil 11 Choosing an Editor for VPL

From VPL -- The Virtual Programming Laboratory Java for CSE Meeting -- December 16 1996. by Kivanc Dinver, Geoffrey Fox


Editor choices:
  • Conventional UNIX editors - vi, emacs, pico, etc..
  • CGI-based editors - functionality is embedded in browsers.
  • Java-based editors - more flexible in functions.
We currently use a CGI-based editor:
  • most of the "routine editing work" is done on client site - communicates with the server only for "saving" and "loading" of user files.
  • uploading/downloading of files from/to client site user accounts is an essential function of such an editor.



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