On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:47:51AM EDT, ow...@netptc.net wrote: [..]
> +1. I teach C in a Debian environment and my students (most of whom > have never used *nix) use nano. Probably a good choice, since you teach C, not editing. By the time you'd finished teaching them Vim, there would be not time left for anything else. :-) But even if you teach C for a living and are on a tight schedule, I hope you find the time to mention that once they finish the class there are other options. Even if once your own, we know that more often than not, a programmer's job means diving into vast amounts of pre-existing code, and that's where a capable editor that seamlessly supports tags, cscope, windowing a directory explorer, tabs, an integrated compile cycle, and navigating efficiently through tens of thousands of lines of code eventually means more to their lifetsyle than mastering the intricacies of sprintf(char *str, size_t size..) Not sure about the dividends that nano will pay in this respect. Yeah, I know, in the real world, your former students will have little choice but use the IDE that their boss's boss's boss happens to favor. And since she's not likely Bram's or RMS's girlfriend, I guess it doesn't really matter. -1 CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
