I guess the question is, what is he looking to gain by having you not use vim? Are you hitting delays in development? Is vim doing something to the code that he doesn't like? Or does he just not like the fact that you use it?
What is he looking to gain? If it's productivity, to me (and I'm not partial to any one editor, so this is not for or against vim itself) you should allow a developer to use what they are most comfortable using. You're not going to gain productivity by forcing a different paradigm on them, you're going to loose it. Rather than changing environments, I'd identify what it is that he's looking to achieve by getting away from vim, and suggest alternatives that achieve the same result without it. If he's wanting better attention to VCS because changes are getting missed, that's an issue with the process, not the editor. If he's hoping for code to show up on the server as you work on it (since you mentioned automatic FTP), there are several ways you could achieve that, from scripts that watch for changes and push files up to mounted filesystems to checking changes in and having the server automatically pull down updates. It sounds like there is an underlying reason why he's asking you to change, and he may be buying into the notion that an all-in-one IDE can solve all of his problems, rather than examining the process and finding a mutual solution to the problem. If it were me, personally, before making drastic changes to my workflow I'd be sitting down with him to see if there's something else that needs to be addressed. It would probably save you both a lot of time and frustration. Just my $0.02. :-) On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Merrill Oveson <[email protected]> wrote: > Phpers: > > My boss said "No more vim!" So I ask: What's the best development > environment? > > What I need: > 1) windows based system > 2) automatic ftp to linux server(s) - LAMP stack > 3) automatically pumps out html based on dragging and drops of input > tags, buttons, etc - Does this even exist? > 4) Can be free or expensive. My boss doesn't care. He says my time > is more expensive than any software package - especially if it makes > me more productive. > > Thoughts? Suggestions? > > Merrill > > _______________________________________________ > > UPHPU mailing list > [email protected] > http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu > IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net > _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
