[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 21:45:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Xterm has a 256-color mode that can be used for subtler

You can do a palette swap in hardware text mode too (fiddling the 
vga palette registers, I think it is the same as in mode 13h but 
it's been a looooong time since I've played with that), the linux 
console in vga text mode (see man console_codes(4)), and in 
Windows console:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms686039%28v=vs.85%29.aspx


Perhaps bad practice to change that stuff, at least not without 
changing it back when you're done, but it is doable.


Actually, my biggest problem with linux is how terrible the 
operating system is compared to DOS and Windows. I'm not even 
kidding, the unix terminal debacle sucks (maybe good when you had 
various hardware, but it is weak next to what the PC hardware 
offers), the available system facilities suck (Win32 is plenty 
usable and reliably there! Even on linux, using a Windows .exe 
tends to work better than using a linux binary - exe's just work 
there thanks to wine, whereas linux binaries always have some 
incompatibility).

Eh I'm getting off topic.