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    #32
    bonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    eoin_s wrote:
    Neither jealous or an emacs user - my comment was "A lot of the people in work".

    You missed the smiley, didn't you....even though you quoted it.

    As a matter of interest...how old are these people? In their late 20s to 30s, perhaps? Have you ever considered what tools were available when they were learning their trade?
    I still think there is this kind of technical snobbery from a lot of *nix users towards anyone who thinks a mouse is a handy device.
    I wouldn't call it technical snobbery. I'd call it an almost-certainly-justified belief that they are more productive without using a mouse when it comes to text-editing.


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    #33
    PhantomBeaker
    Registered Users Posts: 304 ✭✭PhantomBeaker


    warrenaldo wrote:
    in my new job now and they seem to like emacs a lot in here. had to get them to install vim - because i wanted to put on syntax highlighing and colors etc(not available in vi)

    but i cant seem to do in in vim either. anybody got any tips? using freebsd and vim7

    What I normally do is, I'll customise my setup in gvim, and then save the vimrc and import it wherever I need it. :)

    As for how I swing, vim and vi. I prefer vim for coding, but I can only use vi in work.

    Re: Showing off that I don't need a mouse - I tend to work on remote machines, half the time through the serial console, in which case I REALLY need something like vi. It's not showing off, it's just necessity.

    Plus, I like the fact that vi is part of the Single Unix specification, so it tends to turn up in most unix distros meaning I can generally rely on it being there. Also, any linux machines with busybox on there will have vi.

    Aoife


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    #34
    Inspector Gadget
    Registered Users Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭Inspector Gadget


    I don't know if I'm going to be the lone voice in the wilderness here, but I have a liking for two editors:

    1) UltraEdit (for Windows) - love it, but it costs money, so don't use it. Will stump up the relatively paltry amount to buy it at some stage in the near future though.
    2) jEdit - I use this day to day for assorted PHP/Python/Perl stuff, and I find it,its plugin and macro toys and little things like a search and replace tool that understands regular expressions to be fantastic. It also does a decent job of syntax highlighting as well.

    Anyone else for either of these? I will say that when I'm working remotely I also use vi/vim - I can do the basics, but I find it slow... I've used emacs a few times, but to say that it's got a learning curve is being kind IMHO...
    Gadget


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