On 15 March 2010 19:53, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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.
You commented that your primary objection to IDEs was that they cause you to take your fingers off the keyboard - I suggested that it's possible to navigate through (Ruby) projects all day with little use of the mouse, and also that some people aren't *that* concerned about the hassle involved in moving their hand to a different input mechanism. <snip swathes of awesome features> Sure, there's loads of pro's to your favoured development environment (integrated or not) that cause *you* to experience great productivity; given the OP's query, that's all valuable input for him (if he ever comes back to this thread!) but it's a little rude to dismiss people as 2nd class or worse because of the tools they use, or the fact that they care less about their RAM use, or shutting down their computer at night; essentially because they have different priorities to you. > If its your job to write code then just write the code. That's certainly what a good corporate coding drone should do. I'm not one of those; I certainly program, but I'm not a "programmer" exclusively. >> 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. Can't comment, I'm afraid, I've no particular exposure with .Net (and it was not my intention to make a comment about different peoples' productivity a reference to which language is "better") -- 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.
