On 9/15/06, steve szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hehe, that might be a good point. Though I must say I usually like it. Maybe it's the break in monotony, pretty colors. Guess what I like about color is being able to spot something at a glance.
It certainly is jarring when you point vi at file and your screen lights up like a bad acid trip. Then again, I like my colours and syntax highlighting - big yellow XXX and FIXMEs on a black background. Or bright red mismatched parentheses, brackets and braces. One more lets-all-complain-about-bloated-editors argument, here are startup times for nv, vim and gvim -f. As soon as they were ready I entered :q! vi: 0.007u 0.000s 0:01.34 0.0% 0+0k 18+9io 0pf+0w vim: 0.382u 0.242s 0:04.68 13.2% 0+0k 282+40io 0pf+0w gvim: 0.445u 0.250s 0:03.53 19.5% 0+0k 235+7io 0pf+0w
I see doctors who spend ten years learning something. The last thing they want to hear is that their knowledge is now obsolete. Which is always the risk in any high tech industry like ours.
Hopefully in the process of learning one's specialty, one also learns how to learn. In which case one can learn new tricks or a new trade. CK -- GDB has a 'break' feature; why doesn't it have 'fix' too?
