On that note, you should definitely know Vi because some day you will have to SSH to a server, and need to read a file. Knowing Vi makes that really easy. But my day-to-day programming is in Sublime. Eric On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Adam McCullough wrote: > I started out as a Vim lover many years ago. A supervisor at my internship > nudged me (in his gentle, wise, fatherly way) into trying to become tool > agnostic. > > So, my donation of kerosene to the embers of this editor war: Learn one > editor. Then learn another. Then another! Knowing the basics of vim and > emacs both gives you a lingua franca across Linux, Unix, BSD, OS X, > Windows, and more. > > How many programs grok hjkl natively? Or C-n/C-p/C-b/C-f? How many more > have plugins to add such functionality? > > Diversity helps. :) > > Adam > > On 10 July 2012 09:51, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > >> No need to throw out any editor, use whatever one you like!**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Oh, wait, “throw out” as in “throw out to the wolves”. “Never mind” ;-)* >> *** >> >> ** ** >> >> And, I certainly see no reason to flame about editors (I am something of >> an ‘olde pharte’, so I’ve seen some pretty stupid editor flamewars ‘back in >> the day’ J )**** >> >> ** ** >> >> In any case, I’m just glad that in Linux-land you get to choose your >> editor (and mail client!!! And mail client editor (to a lesser degree)!!!! >> I hate Outbreak’s editor… )**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Rusty**** >> >> ** ** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto: >> plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] *On Behalf Of *Eric Cope >> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:42 AM >> >> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list >> *Subject:* Re: g++**** >> >> ** ** >> >> If we are throwing out editors, I highly recommend Sublime Text 2. It is >> very fast, is incredibly good looking. Its not FOSS, but somethings are >> worth it :) >> >> Eric >> >> **** >> >> ** ** >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >