Community (A Modest Proposal)

[Shashwat Anand]

IDEs are seriously over-rated.
Vim FTW.
The only issue for beginners is they should know touch typing to fully
utilize Vim and the initial curve is a bit high as compared to normal
editors/IDEs.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Andreas Waldenburger
<usenot at geekmail.invalid> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:45:43 +1000 James Mills
> <prologic at shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
>
> > I myself use vim (as my editor) and 2-3 Terminals on virtual
> > workspaces (in my DE). I guess the beauty with vim is you just read
> > the line no. type it in and hit ^G
> >
> You mean just G (Shift+g), right? ^G (Ctrl+G) prints the file name and
> cursor position.
>
> Incidentally, :<linenumber><Return> does the same as <linenumber>G.
>
> Sorry, that's seriously OT, but think about the havoc this could wreak
> if some uninformed layperson read this and took it to heart. ;)
>
> /W
>
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