On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, G. M. Bodnar wrote: > A while ago, I was working in a lab that had only serial access to > another lab.
I will admit that when I'm talking to a customer's computer on the very far end of a very slow link, I will revert to vi, emacs Zealot though I am. > Having said that, emacs can do everything that vim can do. Sort of like saying a chainsaw can do everything a knife can. > I'm unfamiliar with the keybindings, having been an avid vi(m) user > since 1994, and have very little interest in learning a new > keybinding. I usually challenge myself to learn / practise one new feature of my environment a day. > Your question was about IDE's though, not just editors. Have a look at http://www.eclipse.org I have a bash at it every so often, get frustrated by the fact it seems huge, slow and crashes. Something Emacs never does to me. So I delete Eclipse and ignore it for a month or ten. However, I'm aware that others swear by it. > First, I don't like mice. They have a use, but it takes my hands of > the keyboard, and I'm not fond of that. I would put it more strongly. I hate rats. I like emacs because I hardly ever need to touch the Rat while editing. I use flwm window manager since it lets me get by hardly ever touching the rat. I used kde for awhile and got a vile case of "mouse arm", my shoulder hurt like hell. > And I've met people who seem to think better > when they're gripping a mouse. Have a play and see what you find suits > you. http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040129&mode=classic Yip, the world is divided into two kinds of people, those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand Note to all marketers. If you want to sell things to me, buy Google words. I refuse on principle to buy anything sold by spam or popup and I never follow any links found in a spam. I do however use Google and will often follow the neat non-irritating Google Word ads that are of interest to me.
