On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 11:20 -0500, W W wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Lie Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I agree it is very powerful, at its time, when computers are > keyboard-only and terminal-only. But now, most of its power is > largely > redundant and is pale compared to modern text-editor that do > acknowledge > mouse as a primary input device. > > I've never met anyone who could edit faster with a mouse than I can > with my basic knowledge of vi.
I think the greatest bottleneck in editing isn't the tool itself, but how fast the editor can identify what to edit/write next (the slowest thing attached to a computer is between the keyboard and chair). And if you're doing an editing contest, I'm sure I can fare _at_least_ as fast as you. > Bottom line - you don't like to use vi (or prefer to use your mouse). Don't take it wrong, I don't hate vi, I like to use it too in certain circumstances, I only thought it was way too overrated. > Those of us who use vi have experienced its benefits. (And using > visual mode to yank helps eliminate counting errors ;) ) > > Neither of us will change, and making arguments to the contrary is > worse than arguing about religion (although one could very well argue > that choice of editors is practically a religion, and I'm sure there > are many folks out there who defend their editor more than their > religion). > > Bottom line v.2, People should use what works best for them. > I won't try to change you if you won't. I agree with you though: "choose what's works best for you". For me: touchpad+keyboard combination allows the fastest editing speed a typical vim-ers would have a hard time to match. > -Wayne > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
