On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 6:43 PM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:40 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:04:16 -0500 >> > Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> Should I try to learn >> >> vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to >> >> administer a remote box) or install Emacs or something else, >> >> for the gcc editor? > > These two usually result in religious wars. Emacs is *very* powerful and > customizable and extensible. Probably makes the learning curve longer. > But it already has definitions for several languages. Vim also has some.
Bill: I am going to have a *huge* learning curve with C++, so I am going to go with vi (vim) or something *very* close to it and avoid the long learning curve of Emacs. Emacs is a completely different breed. Apples to Oranges. > > I never used emacs much as I already had a "cake walk" into vi (now vim) > because it uses a lot of what you find in regex, which I was intimately > familiar with, from heavy "ed" usage before vim was a gleam in someone's > eye. I used an Intel editor, years ago, that probably was something like vim. Prefer not to need to memorize, but if I use it often enough, I will learn it and be able to use it. > > If you already have some familiarity with regex (grep, sed, et al), > you'll probably find vim faster to learn. No experience with those. > > Then I would suggest that. Otherwise, take a quick browse of the man > pages for both, pick one or the other and use it (almost) exclusively. > You'll quickly become competent if you use it a lot and take brief reads > of succeeding sections in the man pages or tutorials. Vi or vim. I think Emacs would just cloud my mind, when I'm trying to absorb C++ Lanny _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
