--- Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. I had a girlfriend with a Lisp. But what a body! DT __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"