Jason House Wrote: > For example, as an emacs user, I can easilly program for an hour > without touching my mouse.
I would say 'not using the mouse' is clear sign the programmer is coding using a programmer's editor and not a modern day IDE. I would also say many Windows programmers are completely lost without their IDE, and this can makes them less productive as a developer. They could make themselves better programmers by overcoming their addiction to the IDE. http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind.html But programming on Windows without a mouse driven, language specific IDE, using nothing but the command line and a good editor is possible and really quite easy to do. > As a commandline utility, it can be combined with other stuff such > as ls, sort, grep, sed, awk, etc... I don't know if I'd start there > though... Replace ls with dir, download the Win32 version of grep, sed, awk and you can run all those tools just fine from the Windows command line, or from within any decent editor. You don't have to go to Unix to find the command line.
