I started out as a Vim lover many years ago. A supervisor at my internship nudged me (in his gentle, wise, fatherly way) into trying to become tool agnostic.

So, my donation of kerosene to the embers of this editor war: Learn one editor. Then learn another. Then another! Knowing the basics of vim and emacs both gives you a lingua franca across Linux, Unix, BSD, OS X, Windows, and more.

How many programs grok hjkl natively? Or C-n/C-p/C-b/C-f? How many more have plugins to add such functionality?

Diversity helps. :)

Adam

On 10 July 2012 09:51, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com> wrote:

No need to throw out any editor, use whatever one you like!

 

Oh, wait, “throw out” as in “throw out to the wolves”.  “Never mind” ;-)

 

And, I certainly see no reason to flame about editors (I am something of an ‘olde pharte’, so I’ve seen some pretty stupid editor flamewars ‘back in the day’ J )

 

In any case,  I’m just glad that in Linux-land you get to choose your editor (and mail client!!! And mail client editor (to a lesser degree)!!!!  I hate Outbreak’s editor… )

 

Rusty

 

 

From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Eric Cope
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:42 AM


To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: g++

 

If we are throwing out editors, I highly recommend Sublime Text 2. It is very fast, is incredibly good looking. Its not FOSS, but somethings are worth it :)


Eric

<prepares for flame war :)>

 


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