Ha! I haven't heard that in a LONG time. Gonna tag our only emacs user with that in the morning. :) I've not tried emacs, but I've heard that it's fairly powerful. Vim does the job for me (almost literally sometimes with all the plugins and custom stuff we have setup), but I might give emacs a whirl just to see what the "other side" looks like.
As for Sublime Text 2... When I first started at Reel FX I thought I'd use that despite everyone else either using vim, kate or eclipse. The problem with it is that it was constantly adding whitespace in the wrong places and couldn't do a proper character count to save it's memory leaks(since it doesn't have a life). Those two things are rather problematic when you use Python for damn near everything and when the studio suggested character count per line is 80 (since most of us have multiple files split in a window at any given time). I had high hopes for Sublime, but it fell WAY too short and now I'm too accustomed to Vim to switch... Ever. On Oct 27, 6:23 pm, "T. D. Smith" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 26, 11:01 pm, Justin Israel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Emacs is your favorite OS? > > It's an old joke that probably came from the vi community: "Emacs is a > great operating system. Too bad it doesn't have a decent text editor." > But there's some truth to it. Emacs was a pretty huge executable back > in the day- another old joke is that Emacs stands for "Eleven Megs and > constantly swapping," though that joke doesn't make much sense > anymore. > > But Emacs is also very programmable and really hardcore Emacs users > use it to do almost everything. It has a web browser, an email client, > an irc client, a newsreader, modes for interacting with various source > control systems, Tetris, a few chatbots, including Eliza and Zippy the > Pinhead (who you can make converse with each other if it's a really > slow day at the office,) etc. As Xavier Ho points out you can open a > system shell in an Emacs buffer. And Emacs is very programmable, if > you don't mind the idiosyncracies of Emacs Lisp. > > I wind up developing on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and there was a time > when I used a couple of other operating systems pretty regularly. > Treating Emacs like an OS as much as I can helps to soften the blow of > moving from platform to platform, though I'm definitely not a really > hardcore Emacs user. Among other things, I'm not able to grow a > luxurious enough beard to qualify ;). > > I do think that Emacs is a decent text editor, but I sometimes suspect > that vi might be a better one. And I'm pretty sure vi is less likely > to give you an RSI than Emacs is. Emacs does have an answer to this > though- there is a mode for emacs (more than one actually, I think,) > that makes Emacs's text editing a lot like vi's. But it's a little > like switching to a programmer's Dvorak keyboard layout- something I > sometimes think I ought to do, but which I am too set in my ways to > actually do. > > Best > T -- view archives: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya change your subscription settings: http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya/subscribe
