At 11:22 PM 8/16/2007, Bob Rogers wrote: >I agree these are all nice features, but I've been able to do most of >them in Emacs for years (decades for some of it, though not with >Perl). >I further agree that some bits of Emacs' Perl support could be better, >but the chief difference seems to be that an IDE gives you a heavily >mouse-oriented interface. This is usually much more impressive >visually, and is easier for occasional users, but I have little doubt >that, with practice, touch-typing Emacs is faster.
I started in Emacs, 16 years ago. I now mainly do Windows development in C++ using Visual Studio, and have been doing that for over 10 years. One of the first things I did in Visual Studio was to set it up with the Emacs keybindings, and I use the keyboard very heavily. I do use the mouse, but not nearly as heavily as most of the other people in my office. So, having a mouse-oriented interface doesn't necessarily preclude touch-typing, as long as your editor of choice has a decent keyboard interface, or can be made to have one. The program I develop is a GUI app that is heavily mouse-oriented, and I do tend to use the mouse a lot more when I'm debugging, since I'm switching back and forth between the program and the debugger. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
