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 <
ajmccul1@asu.edu> 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 <Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com>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
>>
>> <prepares for flame war :)>****
>>
>> ** **
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