On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Matthew Gardner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Matthew Gardner <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Vim: 3 (Matt, Garrett, AJ) >> Emacs: 0 >> >> May the best editor win! (which of course is vim) >> > > It appears that we are now at: > > Vim: 6 > Emacs: 2 > > with two fence-sitters. I think that should tell you which is better. > > Well for me, it's nano. It's becoming more and more standard on Linux systems, and I like that it's very simple. I don't do complicated scripting, but I'm on a lot of different machines doing admin work. My extent is CTRL-W for search and/or replace and CTRL-K for cutting a line and CTRL-U for pasting the cut line, and CTRL-_ for going to a specific line. I like how when you open the program, you are editing and it's got the help bar at the bottom if I need to do something a little more complicated. I guess for me, it reminds me a bit of WordStar, which I loved growing up. I can get around vi/vim, just fine if I need to, but it's basically very minimal editing skills. I used Emacs in EE and hated it, there just didn't seem to be any sense to the command key strokes and it was CTRL-ATL-K-Y to save the file or silly things like that (please remember this was 8 years ago). With nano, now getting syntax highlighting (the only "feature" I really missed), it's complete enough for me. I'll go back to my cubical now. Robert LeBlanc Life Sciences & Undergraduate Education Computer Support Brigham Young University
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