On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (a bit orthogonal) > i don't understand why we cannot have own, consistent set which is good > for us? > vim, emacs.. better use sets which are already extremely familiar than invent yet another set. to those of us who use these editors (and we are legion) these sets have long become almost subconscious to use. why this is so important ? Those editors were not written for editing > smalltalk code in mind.. > they are best suited for big, hundreds lines of code, files.. > they're the two most popular editors of their type. lots of people use them for other languages without IDE support. They provide convenient power features such as pattern replacement. Not often I find myself filing out Smalltalk code and editing it with vim (sadly I've never learned emacs). > while something like that in our case is an exception rather than norm. > So, why some people striving for having same keys as there? Just > because they get used to them? > > Seriously vim? A modal editor which is invented for editing files on > obscure terminals, where you don't even have a cursor keys on > keyboard? I pass.. > > Just give me a decent editor with good cursor navigation, selection > and undo/redo/find/replace, that's all i need. > > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. > > -- best, Eliot
