begin quoting Jack Eisenbach as of Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 09:47:41AM -0700: [snip] > Dare I admit that I still hate using vi.
Sure. Not all tools fit all people. Some mutants with extra fingers find emacs to be very useful. Others with a third arm like the mouse-driven editors... > The 1st thing I learned about > using vi was how to exit and not modify the file in doing so. That's the most important lesson to learn for *any* editor. Seriously. > Once I got used to editors with multiple > windows where I could see more than 1 file > at a time, it was tough to not use that. That's one of the reasons I use (g)vim... One of the problems I had with eclipse is that I could only get two editor windows open at once; with Netbeans I can get as many as I want, although with all of the extra cruft, I can only put two of 'em side-by-side, while with (g)vim I can get THREE side-by-side... > Now it's hard to work without 2 monitors. > (I only power the 2nd one when actually using it) I've discovered I really have gotten used to 1600x1200 or better... -- And the 22/23" monitors are coming down in price, too... Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
