On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Paul Hill<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Ted Roche<[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/7/15 Ricardo Aráoz <[email protected]>: >> > > Mind what you say in public Ted, you're likely to get death threats dissing > vi! > > Besides, everyone knows Emacs is better :-) >
Oh, and you take your very life in your hands!!! Such flamebait! :) Seriously, I've had the religious conversion: a powerful text editor like ViM, a shell window running a smart language like bash, and a running instance of my application standalone or in a web browser is the closest I have come to the productivity I had with Visual FoxPro in the 90's. I tried several of the IDEs like Visual Studio or Eclipse or RadRails, but I never felt the added conveniences outweighed the sense that the IDE was slowing productivity down. And just as we had the power to redefine the VFP IDE menu or keypresses or add macros or hook into ProjectHooks, the idea of "small tools loosely joined" with the ability to add on your editor tools, web browser plugins or shell scripts gives me the ability to define and shape my development environment to the way I like it and to the task at hand. We learned Ctrl-K, Q back in the WordStar days and in the dBASE editor. Colon, W makes as much sense (*shrug*) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
