rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > 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?
Yeah, if you bring it down to open a file, save a file, and move the cursor around, sure you can do that in a day or two (two since you have to get used to the "weird" key bindings). > And add a handful more to make the switchover worthwhile? That's somewhat I did: I used TextPad a lot, and at first I looked for how to do what I could in TextPad in Emacs (hence reading the book). But that took longer than a day. -- John Bokma j3b Blog: http://johnbokma.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/j.j.j.bokma Freelance Perl & Python Development: http://castleamber.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
