From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 16:18: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E03115156 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:18:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA32973; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:16:30 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200001270016.SAA32973@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice In-Reply-To: from "Eric J. Schwertfeger" at "Jan 26, 2000 03:21:27 pm" To: ejs@bfd.com (Eric J. Schwertfeger) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:16:30 -0600 (CST) Cc: jdunham@fc.net (Jerry Dunham), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Eric J. Schwertfeger babbled: > From ejs@bfd.com Wed Jan 26 17:21:32 2000 > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jerry Dunham wrote: > > > Or just as slowly. The learning curve for vi is very painful, and I > > understand the curve for Emacs is no better. > > I use both, and even though I use emacs bindings less (actually I use > jed with emacs bindings), I still make more mistakes in vi. For some > reason, I don't think I'll ever get used to modes, and I think that is the > single part of vi that causes other users problems as well (the rest of > the programming team here uses vi exclusively while under unix, and they > still make errors too). > > I don't think that emacs bindings are any easier or harder to remember > than vi bindings are, it's just the modes that I trip over. Hmmm.... The modes gave me hell when I was learning vi a decade ago, but I haven't experienced a problem with it since. I thought it was only a learning curve issue. I can fatfinger the keyboard with anything, but I seem to make no more mistakes with vi than anything else I enter text in. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H) Gerald_Dunham@dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message