On 2006-01-09 15:30, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >JD Arnold wrote: >> That's why you should graduate to Emacs - with the makefile syntax >> highlighting, you'll at least see the differences between tabs and >> spaces before getting into trouble due to bad whitespacing!-) > > you're certainly giving a viewpoint that has a great deal of > truth to it, but I guess what scares folks is the horrible, > horrible emacs learning curve,. At one point in my career (in > school, lisp programming) I learned/used emacs. I admit, it's > got so much power, there isn't even a close competitor. BUT at > that time, I had a genius girl programmer at my side, and she > helped me with emacs syntax so heavily it was funny, and so I > could make use of emacs without really having to scale the > learning curve. > > If I'd actually had to scale that learning curve, do you think > I would have, even COULD have used emacs? One of the worst > things I had happen, I needed, one year later, to go back to vi > for a job, and just forgot enough emacs usages, and never went > back. I'd love to, but I'd have to find another genius Lisp > girlfriend, before I could do that. > > Likely? That's why emacs isn't the world's most popular editor/IDE.
If you remove the artificial requirement of the help person being your girlfriend at the same time too, I'm sure a lot of the current Emacs users will be glad to help /me grins _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
