On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:17:22 +0200, Shakthi Kannan
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> Hi, My thoughts below:
> ----- On 9/14/07, Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I wonder, programmers under *nix, have Konsole ( ;) ) based text
>> editors as well as GUI text editors (Just to differentiate for the
>> sake of it: vim, nano and Kate, Emacs, gEdit) which provide syntax
>> highlighting and a host of other options. Are they at a loss?
> \--
> When you work with console based-text editors, like vi or GNU Emacs
> you directly work with system RAM, so it is quite fast.
Emacs has had non-console properties for over a decade now. I
have syntax based coloring, context sensitive menues, multiple frames,
code browsing, integrated compile time error parsing, integrated
debugger sessions.
> And if you want to be fast with text-level coding, you shouldn't move
> your hand off the keyboard and find the mouse, and do this back and
> forth. It reduces your speed.
Absolutely. I don't have to take my hand off the keyboard to go
from code to email to irc sessions with my co-workers discussing code
while it is compiling in the background. If I ever met an IDE that was
as competent as Emacs, I would switch. But Eclipse is bloatware that
does not provide the capabilities that my Emacs does, so why bother?
manoj
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