Editor to program in C

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Sun Apr 5 23:40:16 UTC 2009


From: "m" <maximilianbianco at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, 2009/April/05 15:00


> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:52:20PM +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
>> On 4/5/09, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
>> > Andras Simon wrote:
>> >> There may be reasons for not liking vi or emacs,  but their being
>> >> useless is certainly not one of them.
>> >
>> > They're useless compared to editors which you can just start to use 
>> > with no
>> > learning curve.
>>
>> Is this how you approach all tools, or only editors?
>>
>> Not to mention that using emacs as a simple text editor requires no
>> learning whatsoever. If you can use a menu, know what "open", "save",
>> "exit" and "help" means, "you can just start to use" it. Yes, there's
>> a lot to learn about emacs, but you don't have to write emacs
>> extensions from day one.
>>
>> I'm not a vi user, but I'm pretty sure this holds for at least the
>> X-ified versions of vi, too.
>>
>> Andras
>>
> I love that you don't need a mouse in emacs.

You certainly don't need a mouse in Vim, either. But real hairy chested
programmers use echo >foo.c so get with it.

{O,o} 




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