On 02/03/2005 @ 22:25 GMT, Wiggins d'Anconia, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
John Delacour wrote:
I'd love to hear a convincing explanation from someone why anyone would use such tools in preference to TextWrangler, BBEdit or Affrus. I can imagine they'd make it a chore to write code in us-ascii and either a nightmare or an impossibility to deal with non-ascii, but maybe that's because I'm just an unreformed Mac user :-)
They aren't free (well BBedit and Affrus), they aren't cross platform (why learn a different editor for each platform), and they require lots of clicky.
I have never logged into a system where I couldn't use vi. (well maybe a windows box, but it didn't take long to install gvim or cygwin.)
In the case in point though he's using OS X so why not use the best tools for the platform you're on? If one day he gets stuck on Atari he'll have to learn vim/emacs/whatever.
Convince me they are the best tools. I gave you two other reasons why they aren't as good. On top of the fact that it is cross platform.
No point suffering til then :-)
I'm not suffering in vim, I would be in those others.
Cheers,
Regards,
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Give a man a fish, and he will grill it and drink a beer. Teach a man to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day long.
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