[Tutor] Is there a programmatic use for keys() and values()

[Steve Willoughby]

On 16-Jun-2013, at 11:35, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On 17/06/13 03:59, Steve Willoughby wrote:
>> 
>> On 16-Jun-2013, at 10:49, Jim Mooney <cybervigilante at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 16 June 2013 01:43, Roel Schroeven <roel at roelschroeven.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Can't you disable that behavior somewhere in the settings of your IDE? I
>>>> know IDEs do that to be helpful, but I don't like it and so far I've been
>>>> able to disable it in all IDEs I've used.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> VIM sounds good but I don't think there's a version for Windows.
>> 
>> There's a version of VIM for about everything, including Windows and OS X.
> 
> Pfft! VIM. VIM is not the standard editor. There is only one standard editor, ed. That's why it's called an EDitor, not a VIMitor.


Pfft. Only for people who can't handle using the Real One True Editor: TECO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TECO_(text_editor)

steve


Although I admit back in my MSDOS days I found a copy of ED which was ported there since it was at least infinitely better than EDLIN.
And to be fair, VIM grew out of the classic vi which itself grew directly out of ed, so there's a little ed hiding in VIM trying to escape.