On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:50:06 -0800 (PST), rm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Both Vim and Emacs are hard to learn. In other words, they will > require that you spend at least some time studying how they work and > practicing. They have a learning curve that is much larger than using > something simple like NEdit, Gedit, KWrite, etc. But, they are a lot > more powerful.
In other words: if there are no features, you don't have to work to learn them? I agree that learning to use an editor well is hard work -- but its well worth it. It's the primary interface between the programmer and the computer, and will continue to be so until you are too old to type. > One thing that I think favors Vim over Emacs, is that > Vim seems to be installed by default on almost all Linux distros. As I understand it, they tend to include a crippled version of vim with many of the interesting features disabled. Doesn't help a Python developer much. Of course, both Emacs and the full vim are trivial to install, unless you're the sysadmin's sworn enemy. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
