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From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
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Subject: Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?
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On 1/9/06, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote:
> you're certainly giving a viewpoint that has a great deal of truth to
> it, but I guess what scares folks is the horrible, horrible emacs
> learning curve,.  At one point in my career (in school, lisp
> programming) I learned/used emacs.  I admit, it's got so much power,
> there isn't even a close competitor.

Actually, I find Vim superior in most respects. I would use Emacs if
someone would fix the broken modes that are accepted as best-in-class
for most of the uses that I need. Meanwhile, Vim just works.

Mike
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