Text editor recommendations

[Avi Greenbury]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:39:47 +0100
Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Florian Diesch
> <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
> 
> > CapsLock makes a nice Compose here.
> >
> > Is there anyone using CapsLock as CapsLock?
> 
> Rather irritatignly, yes. Oracle WareHouse Builder has a component
> called OMB Plus (very similar to SQL Plus). It has a small language
> baked into it, which is case sensitive. Each command has to be in
> uppercase - OMBDISCONNECT for example,is fine but any other variation
> results in a failure.
> 
> If I'm spending any time in this insipid little piece of software,
> CapsLock gets hit to save my sanity.
> 

I have similar with a phone switch I occasionally program. I was
initially told that everything was case sensitive, and all commands and
options *had* to be in caps, but I've since found that it's not all of
them, just an apparently arbitrarily chosen majority.

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