On Apr 17, 3:19 am, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote: > rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Apr 16, 9:13 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Based on the comments here, it seems that emacs would have to be the > >> editor-in-chief for programmers. I currently use SciTE at work; is it > >> reasonable to, effectively, bill my employer for the time it'll take > >> me to learn emacs? > > > It takes a day or two to learn emacs. > > That's an extremely bold statement. I still haven't learned Emacs and > have read most of the Emacs manual, some parts twice. > > Unless you mean opening a file, saving a file, and some basic cursor > movements.
Aren't there people (many in fact) who use notepad or equivalent to write programs? How many features do they use? How long would it take to make a map of those same features in emacs? And add a handful more to make the switchover worthwhile? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
