Witch editor to use!
Jorgen Grahn
grahn+nntp at snipabacken.dyndns.org
Sun Dec 2 10:47:40 EST 2007
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:50:06 -0800 (PST), rm <rmcorrespond at gmail.com> wrote:
...
> Both Vim and Emacs are hard to learn. In other words, they will
> require that you spend at least some time studying how they work and
> practicing. They have a learning curve that is much larger than using
> something simple like NEdit, Gedit, KWrite, etc. But, they are a lot
> more powerful.
In other words: if there are no features, you don't have to work to
learn them?
I agree that learning to use an editor well is hard work -- but its
well worth it. It's the primary interface between the programmer and
the computer, and will continue to be so until you are too old to
type.
> One thing that I think favors Vim over Emacs, is that
> Vim seems to be installed by default on almost all Linux distros.
As I understand it, they tend to include a crippled version of vim
with many of the interesting features disabled. Doesn't help a Python
developer much. Of course, both Emacs and the full vim are
trivial to install, unless you're the sysadmin's sworn enemy.
/Jorgen
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