On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 08:14:21AM +0500, faisal wrote:
> Is it wise to work in only one text editor all the time & become expert in
> it ?
>
No.
In the course of over 20 years of working with computers, I have learned
plenty of editors, and even written a few, three I think. Some of them run
on operating systems that are now deader than a campaign promise on
election night.
I suggest you use several and learn the basic functions of an editor:
insertion, deletion, cursor movement, etc. on several very different
ones. The basic functions are the same for all editors; only the
keystrokes to accomplish them differ. For Unix I would recommend emacs, vi
and pico. For Windows/Mess-DOS: emacs, notepad and edit. Once you have
those editors down to the point where you can at least use each, however
painfully, at a moment's notice, then select one you like and specialize
further.
Emacs is my editor of choice because at the time I started working with
it, it was the only editor available on Windows, HP-UX and Linux, and it
has only gotten better. Much of the code I wrote for Microsoft while I
worked there I wrote using emacs.
I am familiar with vi (and I don't mean vim) because I used it on minimal
HP-UX installations while I worked at HP, and pico because that was the
editor on a BSD server I used for a while.
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