I'm not sure a gui will ever best vim or emacs when
it comes to keyboard shortcuts.

I agree we should move this over to plug-devel.


On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 08:57 -0800, Josh Coffman wrote:
> 
> --- Micah DesJardins <micahdj@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Here's to editing source in VIM and keeping five to
> > ten terminals open
> > at any given time!
> > *solidarity fist pump!*
> > 
> > It's hard for me to comment on current MS debugger
> > technology because
> > the last time I used it, I had an extra Hercules
> > Graphics Adapter in
> > my PC to display the debugging info.  (For you
> > youngsters, that means
> > I'm old, for you oldsters, I'm only 31 but I was a
> > deeply geeky
> > child.) , but then again, I bet most VS users
> > complaining about *nix
> > debugging haven't worked with recent versions of
> > dbx, mdb and dtrace. 
> > Since VS is neither free nor open source, I feel
> > inclined to bring up
> > both TotalView and Rational PurifyPlus.  I still
> > think gdb is decent,
> > and Insight would probably make it more palatable to
> > people who are
> > looking for a GUI type debugger.  I think a lot of
> > it depends on what
> > your focus is debug-wise, your preferences regarding
> > GUI vs. CLI
> > tools, your costs and/or  F/OSS needs, and your
> > comfort level with any
> > of the tools in question.
> > 
> > For the record, I've yet to find an IDE that I feel
> > "more productive"
> > in than I do with vim and CLI tools but I still hold
> > hope that some
> > day I'll find one.
> > 
> 
> Ok, I'm probably more gui ide oriented then you;
> mostly because of keyboard shortcuts (which there are
> more in gui on windows than the command line).
> 
> Given this, I'm highly interested in the debugging
> tools you've mentioned and what sort of debugging they
> can do. Are they language/compiler specific? Can you
> step through lines of code? Can you get the current
> value of variables? Run code in an 'immediate window'
> with out altering code in your app?
> 
> 
> Shin zen ni rei
> -j
> Registered Linux user number 403109
>   http://counter.li.org/
>   
> 
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