On 21 May 2012 01:19, "boB Stepp" <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Brian van den Broek > <brian.van.den.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
<snip> > > With you polyglot agenda, I would say you would be much better off to learn > > a powerful multipurpose editor well than to try to find the best of breed of > > each class of special purpose tool. > > > > There are three basic choice: emacs, vi or vim, and everything else. There > > is widespread, though not uniform, consensus that The One True Editor is one > > of emacs and vi. After that, the rest is flamewars. > > > > I am an emacist, myself. But some of my best friends are vimists. > > I gather, then, that you feel my time would be well-spent now to learn > a good editor/IDE now, rather than continue with IDLE? <snip> > But since you brought it up, I'll ask a somewhat more general > question: Why do you prefer an editor instead of a graphical IDE? I > have limited experience with Emacs as I finally installed it on my PC > at work to avoid having Windows-style end-of-line characters messing > up my scripts which were to run in an UNIX environment. I can see > potential there, but as my future projects get larger and more > involved will it be able to do everything I would want it to do? Would > I find myself wanting a full-fledged IDE? I don't have enough > technical knowledge to answer these questions right now. Your > thoughts? Hi boB, If IDLE is working well for you, there's a good reason to stick with it. I meant to address whether you ought build a stable of purpose-specific IDEs or learn one editor to rule them all. The advantage of emacs, as I see it, is that it provides general purpose tools of high power for text-wrangling and the (non-trivial) time you have to invest to learn to exploit that power yields fruit whenever you are editing text. Emacs key bindings turn on all over the place, too; bash shell supports a bunch, for instance. It might be that editor plus language would be frustrating to try to learn all at once, though. Best, Brian vdB
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