Re: Editor survival [Was: Recommended editor for novice programmers?]

2017-09-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 04:17:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 08 Sep 2017 at 03:19:49 (+0100), Nick Boyce wrote: > > You're absolutely right. I have sat next to seasoned vi users watching in > > awe as their fingers flew entering weird totally non-intuitive commands (to > > me) and

Re: Editor survival [Was: Recommended editor for novice programmers?]

2017-09-08 Thread David Wright
On Fri 08 Sep 2017 at 03:19:49 (+0100), Nick Boyce wrote: > You're absolutely right. I have sat next to seasoned vi users watching in > awe as their fingers flew entering weird totally non-intuitive commands (to > me) and achieving great edits in next to no time. Other colleagues lived >

Re: Editor survival [Was: Recommended editor for novice programmers?]

2017-09-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
If you are torn between emacs and vi, it's probably because you haven't run eval-mode inside emacs. On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Nick Boyce wrote: Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 22:19:49 From: Nick Boyce <n...@steelyglint.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Editor survival [Was: Recom

Re: Editor survival [Was: Recommended editor for novice programmers?]

2017-09-07 Thread Nick Boyce
On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:08:15 +1000 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 06.09.17 05:31, Nick Boyce wrote: [...] > > [Joe is] one of the first things I install on any Linux > > or *BSD system. > > In my decades of leading software teams, one thing I did not do is ask > "What

Editor survival [Was: Recommended editor for novice programmers?]

2017-09-06 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 06.09.17 05:31, Nick Boyce wrote: > I don't like to confess to my august and more sophisticated colleagues > here how much code I've written using joe - albeit in the simpler > languages (a variety of Bash scripts, Perl, C, HTML and similar). > There is some syntax highlighting, but no