On Jan 14, 2004, at 10:49 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: [..]
Why? I started with emacs just because it happened to be the 1st I heard about. Since you know both why does vim appeal to you over emacs? Other then size.
Not wishing to start an editor war, allow me to wander.
A part of the issue we are wandering into is the problem of can one code without an IDE... and in particular without a GUI that provides colour coded syntax matching...
One way to think about the problem is: <http://www.wetware.com/drieux/PR/blog2/Code/200401.html#id3156855452>
One of the reasons that folks tend to use vi, and hence vim, is that it is small, it is one of those tools that is now ubiquitous, and at ohDarkSquat on a telnet session to the far side of the moon you can quickly hack a patch... It beats the snot out of trying to either do it all in ed, which we did, or trying to make that one liner "perl -pie '....'" work right the first time...
So it is a logicalish progression to go from vi to vim, with or without the Xwindow GUI widget set.
Does that mean that we are willing to give up our preferred IDE's with cool colour coded syntax matching....
Yeah, Right. When you Rip It From My Cold DEAD Hands...
ciao drieux
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