Karl Longen <2frikkincra...@gmail.com> wrote: > BTW you have never tried to code pages and pages using just VI > probably.... > I have used it since some time in the mid 1980s, so I am fairly familiar with it - and it's available on *every* platform I program on which is a big advantage. (Not to mention that I use it for composing E-Mail, Usenet messages, etc.)
> Any person in their right state of mind would not use VI, unless you are > writing short programs (like shell script), or very simple applications. > Renounce to auto correction, color syntax, auto completion, and a ton more > of functionalities, when you are coding millions of lines, is not Er, have you looked at recent versions of vi! :-) > different from running win 3.1 on a modern computer :) > As much as I love terminal, there are things that are not feasible without > a good text editor with plenty of functions; without even mentioning the > pros of a real IDE, when you need to debug and such. > As I said, editor in one window, make in the next, testing in the next (i.e. the debugger). I'm semi-retired now but I used to work on systems with several million lines of code, everyone used either EMACS or vi. -- Chris Green ยท -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
