On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 at 09:21 -0700, Ross Werner wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Michael L Torrie wrote: > >>To really appreciate the benefits of vim/emacs you have to see someone > >>really proficient in doing the taks with that editor at work. It works > >>both ways. Are IDEs easier to plod through than vim? yes. > > > >Dr. Scott Woodfield in the BYU CS dept is one person who will blow > >anyone out of the water using vim. Watching what he can do with vim > >amazes me. Honestly, eclipse would just slow him down (although he > >might be using eclipse for nice build-tool integration these days; I > >don't know). > > I firmly believe that one can be very, very proficient with vim and yet > still prefer Eclipse for Java programming. I don't believe I'm at the Hans > Fugal level of vim proficiency, but I think I have a good chance of being > in the top 10 of pluggers. Eclipse *does* slow me down in terms of text > editing tasks, but I find that all of the other tools it provides more > than makes up for that slowness.
I haven't programmed in Java for awhile, but if I did have to do a lot of Java programming and had to use ant, I may need Eclipse too. I think this says more about Java than IDEs... -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach
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