No religious war from this side, I assure you. To each his/her own is what I live by. :)
Good explanation on why you prefer Leafpad over Emacs - Emacs does have quite a curve on a lot of fronts. Re ledger-mode: there's quite a bit in there from an efficiency point of view, but of course, it does call for emacs. Kinley On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 5:27 PM o1bigtenor <o1bigte...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:55 AM, kinleyd <kinl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 8:35:09 PM UTC+6, Craig Earls wrote: >>> >>> Leafpad!?! You're an animal! :) >>> >> >> lol. I had to look up Leafpad to get the context. >> >> Which is why I was curious as to why Dee doesn't use Emacs and >> ledger-mode - that combines minimalistic text editor (if not the simple >> environment) plus super efficient ledger support. >> >> Oh boy - - - likely going to be another text editor war (religious in > nature) ahead. > I am minimally comfortable in Vi (more accurately vim) when I need to > modify any system files or information. > Learning another text editor (for use only with ledger) doesn't seem to be > a great use of my time (its in short enough supply as it is!). > > From what I have used so far I primarily need an easy way to enter, and > sometimes edit, text and digits. > With Leafpad I have NOT had to learn new ways of moving a cursor, I > haven't had to learn new commands on how to edit, I haven't had to learn > how to enter text, I haven't had to learn how to save documents. > Making it useful is that ledger commands, the few that I've used, seem to > work. > So - - - for my purposes Leafpad works. Anything else would be more work > and take more time. > > Any techniques to make things easier with minimal time investment are > useful. Things that take lots of time are put on a to do list that is > already overwhelming! > > Dee > > >> Kinley >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ledger" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ledger-cli/CXHaEiRVtRg/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
