On 2013-01-24, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 01/24/13 10:23, Thomas Heller wrote: >> Am 24.01.2013 16:54, schrieb rusi: >>> [I personally use emacs. It would be sadistic to make that into a >>> recommendation] >>> >> It would be truly sadistic to force a long-time emacs user to any >> other editor. > > I saw the recommendation for Vim elsewhere on the thread and comment > the same as this sub-thread: "I personally use vim. It would be > sadistic to make that into a recommendation" And likewise, it's > "truly sadistic to force a long-time vim user to any other editor." :-) > > Not that Vim isn't great for programming Python (which I do > daily)...it *is*! It's just not where I'd throw somebody who > doesn't already have an existing editor preference *and* doesn't > know Python.
I agree. Vim is great, Emacs is great. I'm glad I know one of them. But learning one of them is as project unto itself. So selecting either just for Python is skipping too many decisions and maybe biting off too big a piece of the snake. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
