Hi All-- Aahz wrote: > > Use vim. 80% of the power of emacs at 20% of the learning curve. >
I think Aahz has it dead on. Umpty-mumble years ago I spent six weeks learning emacs lisp and customizing emacs until it did EXACTLY what I wanted. It was a great user interface, logical, consistent, orthagonal. It had only one thing wrong with it; it depended on hardware keyboard features that PC keyboards don't have. It would have taken me six weeks to retrain myself to the standard emacs interface, so I used vi. When vim became available, I switched to that. There's a good book available for vim: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735710015/qid=1112743931/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-7196910-2449750 It's excellent; even the index is useful, which is more than I can say for 80% of the O'Reilly books out there, much as I love 'em. Metta, Ivan ---------------------------------------------- Ivan Van Laningham God N Locomotive Works http://www.andi-holmes.com/ http://www.foretec.com/python/workshops/1998-11/proceedings.html Army Signal Corps: Cu Chi, Class of '70 Author: Teach Yourself Python in 24 Hours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list