Ant wrote: >>I've tried a few others, like TextPad and Crimson, and right now I use >>UltraEdit, which I love actually, except for minor issues here and >>there. But it'd be nice to make the move, as much as possible, to free, >>open-source, cross-platform software. > > > Vim is great if you have a good memory... Otherwise you end up trawling > through the help to find out how to do stuff that would in another IDE > be just a few menu clicks away. >
Mental memory (the painful kind of memory) rapidly turns into muscle memory (the fun kind of memory) and all of those mind boggling keystrokes begin to feel like an artistic expression reminiscent of playing the piano. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
