Best editor?
Ivan Van Laningham
ivanlan at pauahtun.org
Tue Apr 5 19:34:05 EDT 2005
Hi All--
Aahz wrote:
>
> Use vim. 80% of the power of emacs at 20% of the learning curve.
>
I think Aahz has it dead on. Umpty-mumble years ago I spent six weeks
learning emacs lisp and customizing emacs until it did EXACTLY what I
wanted. It was a great user interface, logical, consistent,
orthagonal. It had only one thing wrong with it; it depended on
hardware keyboard features that PC keyboards don't have.
It would have taken me six weeks to retrain myself to the standard emacs
interface, so I used vi. When vim became available, I switched to
that. There's a good book available for vim:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710015/qid=1112743931/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-7196910-2449750
It's excellent; even the index is useful, which is more than I can say
for 80% of the O'Reilly books out there, much as I love 'em.
Metta,
Ivan
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