Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-08-15 Thread Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
Sundar Narasimhan wrote: a lot more benefits. I think an open plugin-based IDE like Eclipse can do much, much more.. by actually embedding Emacs within the IDE as a true component plugin, much like it allows the embedding of multiple HTML/JSP editors, viewers or VCM tools etc. Emacs is most

Re: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-05 Thread Simon Kelly
Real Men program with punch cards! Using an old rust knitting needle!?! What is a VDU anyway??? - Original Message - From: Mark Galbreath [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:14 PM Subject: RE: [OT]: What is vim? Oh, quit

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-04 Thread ROSSEL Olivier
actually the vimulator on jEdit is buggy. No, sorry for the confusion. I'm not using the vim emulator on jEdit, I'm using the standard vim on Linux (and then also jEdit on Linux when I have to get stuff done quickly and don't have the time to learn vim:) Easy yank for Vim v0.99b1: use

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-04 Thread Sundar Narasimhan
:). In any case, OTI is an ex-Smalltalk IDE shop, so I presume there's a strong NIH syndrome there similar to most other IDE's I've run across -- Then why is there an Emacs keybinding preference setting but none for vi? David Huh? I can't quite understand what you are asking David. If you are

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-04 Thread James Higginbotham
I think an open plugin-based IDE like Eclipse can do much, much more.. by actually embedding Emacs within the IDE as a true component plugin, much like it allows the embedding of multiple HTML/JSP editors, viewers or VCM tools etc. Amen! I'm torn between the two and having the power

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-04 Thread David Graham
I don't use it but eclipse does have an emacs keybindings preference. David From: James Higginbotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-04 Thread James Higginbotham
editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 09:15:35 -0600 I think an open plugin-based IDE like Eclipse can do much, much more.. by actually embedding Emacs within the IDE as a true component plugin, much like it allows the embedding of multiple HTML/JSP

Re: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:21:23 -0600 James Childers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But once the initial effort is made it is a huge timesaver. You just have to decide to learn it and stick with that decision. I'm forcing myself to use vim more (although I still use jEdit with some plugins to do just

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Pani, Gourav
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:16 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT]: What is vim? On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:21:23 -0600 James Childers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But once the initial effort is made it is a huge timesaver. You just

Re: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:21:02 -0500 Pani, Gourav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually the vimulator on jEdit is buggy. No, sorry for the confusion. I'm not using the vim emulator on jEdit, I'm using the standard vim on Linux (and then also jEdit on Linux when I have to get stuff done quickly and

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread James Childers
Try this: http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=386 -= J -Original Message- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:30 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT]: What is vim? On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:21:02 -0500 Pani, Gourav [EMAIL

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Galbreath
, 2003 2:39 PM Try this: http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=386 -= J -Original Message- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:30 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT]: What is vim? On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:21:02 -0500 Pani, Gourav

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Pani, Gourav
hear hear mark. ps: could you fix the vimulator for jEdit please? ;) -Original Message- From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:57 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT]: What is vim? VIM (vi) beats the hell out of EMACS, unless

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Chappell, Simon P
because they can! Simon -Original Message- From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:57 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT]: What is vim? VIM (vi) beats the hell out of EMACS, unless you are a LISP weenie with a masochistic bent

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Galbreath
Admit it, Simon. I'm your hero. -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:01 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT]: What is vim? I have to agree with Mark here, even though I hate to encourage him! :-) Any

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Chappell, Simon P
More of an anti-hero. ;-) -Original Message- From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:22 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT]: What is vim? Admit it, Simon. I'm your hero. -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread David Graham
VIM (vi) beats the hell out of EMACS, unless you are a LISP weenie with a masochistic bent. And any non-dot-completion editor refines your sense of the API because it forces you to RTFM. Mark I use an ide and am referencing javadoc all the time anyways. I don't see any correlation between ide

Re: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:56:45 -0500 Mark Galbreath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And any non-dot-completion editor refines your sense of the API because it forces you to RTFM. Ok, I see the whole vi/emacs/IDE wars starting up:) Sure in the beginning a newbie should learn to use a basic text editor

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread John Espey
are much more important than autocomplete (although it is a nice feature to have). -Original Message- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT]: What is vim? On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:56:45 -0500

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Galbreath
Oh, quit yer whining http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/realmen.html -Original Message- From: Rick Reumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT]: What is vim? On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 14:56:45 -0500 Mark

Re: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:14:12 -0500 Mark Galbreath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, quit yer whining http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/realmen.html And don't forget... My mom can beat up your mom:) -- Rick Reumann -

RE: [OT]: What is vim?

2003-03-03 Thread Joe Barefoot
: Monday, March 03, 2003 12:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT]: What is vim? VIM (vi) beats the hell out of EMACS, unless you are a LISP weenie with a masochistic bent. And any non-dot-completion editor refines your sense of the API because it forces you to RTFM

[OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Chappell, Simon P
-Original Message- From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT]: What is vim? VIM (vi) beats the hell out of EMACS, unless you are a LISP weenie with a masochistic bent. And any non-dot-completion editor refines

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread alexj
editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Actually, my primary point was text editor usage and programmer ability. It is my personal observation that the better programmers use text editors. (vi or emacs or jedit or vim ... I don't care ... that's not the argument here). I'm not quite saying

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread apachep2
. Simon -Original Message- From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT]: What is vim? VIM (vi) beats the hell out of EMACS, unless you are a LISP weenie with a masochistic bent. And any non-dot-completion

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread iguane18-3
: March 3, 2003 4:38 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Actually, my primary point was text editor usage and programmer ability. It is my personal observation that the better programmers use text editors. (vi or emacs or jedit or vim ... I don't

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Max Cooper
Subject: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Actually, my primary point was text editor usage and programmer ability. It is my personal observation that the better programmers use text editors. (vi or emacs or jedit or vim ... I don't care ... that's not the argument here). I'm

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Chen, Gin
Users Mailing List Subject: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Actually, my primary point was text editor usage and programmer ability. It is my personal observation that the better programmers use text editors. (vi or emacs or jedit or vim ... I don't care ... that's

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Pani, Gourav
Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) IDE is what we usually called productivity tool, text editor is not. There is nothing to do with a developer's skill. -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 3

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Colin Kilburn
Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) IDE is what we usually called productivity tool, text editor is not. There is nothing to do with a developer's skill. -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 3, 2003 4

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread David Graham
observed it enough that, to me, it is a truism. Simon -Original Message- From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT]: What is vim? VIM (vi) beats the hell out of EMACS, unless you are a LISP weenie

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Brian Topping
- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:38 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Actually, my primary point was text editor usage and programmer ability. It is my personal observation

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Chappell, Simon P
, 2003 3:49 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) I think your confusing personal perference with programming skill. Thats like saying that Ted drink Sprite when most of the better programmers drinks Mountain Dew. -Tim -Original

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Chappell, Simon P
- From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) There have also been studies that show perl programmers are generally better than java programmers. David From

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Galbreath
You guys are soo easy! Mark, the Master Bater -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:00 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) I have no intention of arguing

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Chappell, Simon P
, 2003 4:03 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) gesture:yawn / z... snip - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Chappell, Simon P
- From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:03 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) You guys are soo easy! Mark, the Master Bater -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread apachep2
, 2003 4:58 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) No. I very specifically said that the better programmers CAN use text editors and command-line tools. This does not mean that they have to, only that they COULD use them if they choose to. I

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Reumann
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 15:58:11 -0600 Chappell, Simon P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now use the Eclipse IDE for alot of my personal programming because it is like a text editor that wants to be helpful. What I don't like about many of the IDEs (including my favorites Intellij and Eclipse) was

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread David Graham
I believe Eclipse 2.1 (due out this month) supports user defined key bindings. David From: Rick Reumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Struts Users Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Date

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread John Espey
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:49 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) i agree with simon to a certain degree. personally, i got a lot better understanding of programming when i was forced into an environment where i had

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Assenza, Chris
Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) No. I very specifically said that the better programmers CAN use text editors and command-line tools. This does not mean that they have to, only that they COULD use them if they choose to. I now use the Eclipse IDE for alot of my

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Galbreath
Well, you are full of shyte. Okay? Mark (been a master carpenter and Java certified) -Original Message- From: John Espey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:40 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) I

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Jeff Kyser
editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) No. I very specifically said that the better programmers CAN use text editors and command-line tools. This does not mean that they have to, only that they COULD use them if they choose to. I now use the Eclipse IDE for alot of my personal programming because

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Joe Barefoot
Do you hang that next to your WordPerfect certification? -Original Message- From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:49 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Well, you are full

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread John Espey
Java Certified? That proves it conclusively then. What was I thinking? -Original Message- From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:49 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Well

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Chen, Gin
List Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Java Certified? That proves it conclusively then. What was I thinking? -Original Message- From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:49 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Galbreath
GINGER! And she can whip me with bamboo anytime! Mark -Original Message- From: Jeff Kyser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:57 PM Wow, this argument is about as winnable as a 'Ginger or Mary Anne' discussion and not nearly as interesting. Although the diatribes

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Galbreath
Nah - right next to my VB-3 cert! Mark -Original Message- From: Joe Barefoot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:58 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Do you hang that next to your WordPerfect

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Galbreath
Espey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 6:02 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Java Certified? That proves it conclusively then. What was I thinking? -Original Message- From: Mark Galbreath [mailto

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Sundar Narasimhan
I didn't want to get into this -- since editors are religion :) but personally I use editors for editing code (although I must admit that Eclipse's ctrl-space/and factoring helpers are beginning to win me over :), and IDE's for debugging. (in multi-threaded apps, there's no comparison -- I can be

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Mark Galbreath
wonder why. -Original Message- From: Sundar Narasimhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 6:35 PM In summary, I like my hybrid approach. And I am trying to convince Eclipse guys to have / create a true Emacs plugin .. although I don't see any takers yet.

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Max Cooper
2:56 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Wow, this argument is about as winnable as a 'Ginger or Mary Anne' discussion and not nearly as interesting. Although the diatribes about productivity are kinda humorous, given the context ;) -jeff

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Sundar Narasimhan
In summary, I like my hybrid approach. And I am trying to convince = Eclipse guys to have / create a true Emacs plugin .. although I don't see any = takers yet. wonder why. I don't see any smileys, so I'll presume you are asking this seriously. I did submit a bug report/enhancement

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread David Graham
:). In any case, OTI is an ex-Smalltalk IDE shop, so I presume there's a strong NIH syndrome there similar to most other IDE's I've run across -- Then why is there an Emacs keybinding preference setting but none for vi? David _ Add

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Jaye Bass
. -Original Message- From: Jeff Kyser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:57 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) Wow, this argument is about as winnable as a 'Ginger or Mary Anne' discussion and not nearly

RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Sean Chambers
who are ginger and mary anne? -Original Message- From: Jaye Bass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 04 March 2003 01:43 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?) First off...I'd take Mary Ann any day. Second I love IntelliJ

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Rick Reumann
On Tue, Mar 04,'03 (01:44 AM GMT-), Sean wrote: who are ginger and mary anne? Ginger: http://www.gilligansisle.com/ginger.html Mary Ann http://www.gilligansisle.com/mary.html (Sad that I actually looked this up on Google:) -- Rick

Re: [OT] Text editor usage (was RE: [OT]: What is vim?)

2003-03-03 Thread Dave Newton
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 20:58, Rick Reumann wrote: Ginger: http://www.gilligansisle.com/ginger.html Mary Ann http://www.gilligansisle.com/mary.html (Sad that I actually looked this up on Google:) Yeah... The rest of us already had those pages bookmarked ;) Dave