tom told, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > On the contrary, Emacs is more suitable for developement purposes, and > > actually for many other things.
> Well, vim (and gvim) is actually quite powerful for development > purposes. All the best (IMO) that emacs had was taken into vim already. there's one thing missing: indenting code. I had no real problem producing a fortran-90 .vim for syntax, so the coding is nice. And there seems to be a cindent mode, but i haven't figured it out. So I still use emacs and tab or indent-program while writing code, but to edit it, i perfer vim. And yes, that has a lot to do with leaving my fingers on the home row. > Most of my users are economists and research assistants > writing SAS and FAME (a time-series database) programs. They certainly > have no need for a modal editor, anyone suffering through SAS and it's interface needs as little additional pain in hteir life as possible :) For small to medium things, it's easier to use raw fortran than SAS--though once I realized that it was emulating a punch-card reader, it's bizarre rules made a bit more sense . . . --
