a good programming text editor (not IDE)

[Scott David Daniels]

John Salerno wrote:
> And naturally there are Emacs and Vim, but I just don't know if I need 
> to invest *that* much time into learning one of them (probably Vim, 
> since I hear it's lighter and faster).

To paraphrase someone else (their identity lost in my mental fog) about
learning VI:
     "The two weeks you'll spend hating vi (or vim) as you learn it will
      be repaid in another month, ad the rest is pure profit."


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--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org