On Monday 14 Dec 2009 05:26:21 Jonathan Rockway wrote: > * On Fri, Dec 11 2009, Rene Schickbauer wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> I think a discussion about the why's could be interesting and > >> insightful - unfortunately I have to agree that the posts above are > >> mostly about influencing and not much about truth seeking. Is that > >> ever possible? > > > > I don't think so. Everyone thinks and works a little different. So, a > > feature in a software could be THE feature for one but the killer bug > > for someone else. > > > > This is similar to "Whats the best editor?" or "Whats the best > > operating system?"... Countless flamewars have been fought (and lost) > > over questions like that. > > In my experience, ask anyone why they use their favorite editor, and the > answer is usually "because I learned this one first" or "because I wrote > this one". Nobody has ever answered "because I made a chart of editors > versus features I desired, tested each one, and the one I chose had the > most checkboxes". Just sayin'; like favorite colors, favorite editors > and favorite pieces of Perl code are mostly irrational emotional > "decisions". >
Actually, I didn't use my current programming editor - gvim ( http://www.vim.org/ ) - first. The first editor on UNIX I was comfortable with was joe - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor - and this was after I was flabagasted with vi and couldn't get used to GNU Emacs. joe felt natural at first. I also used NEdit on X-Windows, and ended up trying out XFTE - http://fte.sourceforge.net/ . Then when I studied in the Technion, we had gvim installed on the Windows NT computer lab's network share, and I grew accustomed to using it after realising it was configured with ":source $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim" by default which made the transition easier. For a long time I resented the Linux computer lab for not carrying either vim or gvim (just a stripped-down version of vim called "vi" that existed on the Red Hat distribution). In any case, this way I became more accustomed to vim, learned more tricks and features there, and it is now my power editor. Furthermore, on a few occasions I tried to use XEmacs and could never get myself used to it. It always throws a weird error at me, or expects some obscure keybinding that is never present on the screen, or something. I don't claim it's a bad editor, just that I could never get used to it, despite having tried. So it's not true that I'm using gvim because that's what I've learned first. Maybe I'm an exception, but we need a scientific survey here to see what is the exception and what is the rule. I know and heard about several people who switched from Emacs to Vim or vice-versa, so old habits can eventually die. Regards, Shlomi Fish > (My answer, FWIW, is "because I learned this one first", but I steal > features from the other editors whenever possible. The ease of which > this is possible leads me to believe that I made the right choice, but I > am just as irrational as anyone else.) > > Regards, > Jonathan Rockway > > -- > print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$" > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ )
