>>Anyway, here's a suggestion for the OP: have you TRIED getting gvim
>>approved for use? A simple email to your boss might help. The IT

>Yes I did.
>And there reply was that TextPad is the default editor.
>So yes, stupid rules, no room for innovation.

And people wonder why companies are tanking and going bankrupt...

Here, by default, everyone uses Epsilon (the Werewolf Editor, as I call
it).  B'harni Almighty, I *NEVER* had so many *fights* with an editor
where even just hitting <esc> multiple times screws things up.  I even
told people that the day '[g]vim' becomes /verboten/ is the day I give
notice.

But the fact of life, and what Pointy-Haired Boss has to understand, is
that when you're forbidden from using tools which make you *productive*,
then quite obviously productivity suffers.  It takes you longer to do
the same task, the project ends up behind schedule, and so on down the
line.

If a mechanic were only allowed to use "approved" pliers and was charged
with changing a set of spark plugs, vs being able to use the
proper-sized sockets, could he be faulted for taking a whole day to
change *1* car's plugs, if he could even do it at all?  When the garage
owner complains about his "lack of productivity", whose fault is it
*really*?  All I know is that I wouldn't put myself on the hook and have
to work unpaid hours because of PHB's and/or the company's own
stupidity.  As long as they're okay with that...

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