* William O'Higgins Witteman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061114 09:05]: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 12:28:02PM -0500, Richard Querin wrote: > > On 11/14/06, Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've used vim in the past for python and recommend it for ease of > > use and support. I also use emacs, which may be found harder to > > > > I have to chuckle when you recommend Vim for ease of use. Now don't start > > flaming me quite yet. I'm a big fan of Vim and I'm in the midst of > > learning it myself. I think it's a very powerful editor and I like it a > > lot. But recommending it for ease of use might be a little stretch. It's > > like a lot of things, the higher learning curve ultimately gets you > > greater rewards. > > Using vim is like riding a bicycle - it's hard to learn, but once you > get it, it becomes automatic and can make you intolerant of walking (... > everything ... is taking ... so ... long ...) :-)
I went from Boxer on windows - nice editor, CUA-style - to vim. Getting used the vim 'modal style' seemed exotic, but not 'arcane'. Once I got past that, I found vim incredibly nimble. I found emacs harder to learn than vim. I find that they both have their place. BTW: vim offers 'hooks' to compile the python editor directly into the editor. That's a feature that portends many possibilities. tim > yours, > > William > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alaska-internet-solutions.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
