On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: >> And people who shy away from that power aren't really programmers IMO. > > Good job it's worth a whole 2pence :-/
I'll take it. Paypal work? > How is it harder to learn the IDE keyboard shortcuts that it is to > learn Emacs'? I didn't say it was harder, but you only get what it came pre-programmed with for the most part. Some of them offer some added shortcut functionality but nothing anywhere close to the power of making your own key binding in Lisp. Another thing is I can start Emacs once and run it until my next reboot, weeks or months from now. I have to restart Eclipse every few hours or so. I can start Emacs in a screen and continue my work from home later in the evening. I can background Emacs and type shell commands. It's so much more. IDEs usually have a large memory footprint. Eclipse uses over half a GB of ram on my system. Emacs uses 13MBs of ram, but that's only because I have a ton of stuff loaded like ERC, ECB, and Gnus. > Typically, it would be worth adding "YMMV" to your > previous statement, because other people may find there isn't a direct > correlation between the ratio of their keyboard:mouse contact and > their productivity - If its your job to write code then just write the code. Are you a programmer or not? > I've sat next to people at both extremes; of > typing lots of noise, and typing amazing code with very few > keypresses, Yeah, that's the .net people, plugging components together requires very little typing, and very little programming skills for that matter. > regardless of their development environment. > > (of course, YMMV ;-) Yup. -- Greg Donald destiney.com | gregdonald.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
