begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:27:18AM -0700: > Bob La Quey wrote: > >On 6/8/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>And people who like silly memorization use vi. > > > >This is a complete nonissue if you use something all the time. > >It is like saying "and people who like memorization use English" > >all those words! Damn so many of them. One man's memoriziation is another's expressiveness.
> A) People who use mouse driven IDE's would say the same thing. Heh. > B) I was being sarcastic Hey, *I* laughed. > However, I don't agree with this being a non-issue. > > There is a cognitive load issue. The prime example I use for this is > the "search-and-replace" functionality in vi vs. emacs. Search and > replace in vi *never* sticks in my brain. There are other things like that. The nice thing about vi search-and-replace is that it's basically the same thing as sed... but I don't even know where to begin looking for search-and-replace in emacs, despite having looked it up a few times. The emacs commands just don't stick in my brain. I feel your pain... from the other side of the fence. :) > Different strokes for different folks. Amen. Hell, we let lefties write with their left hand these days. This is a good thing, and not a sinister plot. -- You cut, I choose. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
