`wine' does in no way make "it" cross platform...in any of the known universes.
The V.L.I.D.E. "has an editor" not "is an editor" - Visual Lisp Integrated Development Environment.
This conversation is splitting in two (we are talking two different languages/conversations here).
"syntax highlighting", "parenthesis matching", and "indentation" is the extent of the feature list for the editor in the VLIDE. A real text editor is so much more but the amount of `features' isn't the point; usefulness is. If you feel that `syntax highlighting', `paren match', and `indenting' along with the IDE-debugging features are useful enough for how you write your lisp programs then so be it, but please don't fool yourself into thinking that is what or how you use a text editor. An IDE is something entirely different than a text editor. You need to choose the tool best suited for how *you* work (if an IDE is good enough for you; good. I'm glad for you...I'm sorry, but I cant make myself care any more than that about how you *want* to work--I can only make suggestions if i feel they would be of any use).
To give you an example of what I'm talking about, I don't consider the debugging feature(s) as important as "navigation"; I spend far too much time reviewing, looking at, studding code. That is why Vim has a `normal' mode. As a `nav' example, I can jump back and forth to and from functions in this or that, or other files or directories without having to actually do any "opening or navigating files or folders" (I can jump around to and from functions like I can navigate the internet--clicking links so to speak--Vim can just know where to find a function and open the file for me to that location when issue a command). The things I do are worlds apart from what [you] do in the VLIDE because i work or do things in a different way.
Now, to address the second conversation:
If you ask any Vim user what kind of `features' Vim has they will laugh at you. However, I can try to start the `feature discussion' by saying: Vim has approximately 3609 features, at the time of writing this, which one would you like to talk about or compare?
EDIt: did a spell check.
