[ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor

[Scott Plante]

Oh, and by the way, when I do use Netbeans, I use a plugin that puts it in "vi mode". ;-) 

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From: "Scott Plante" <splante at insightsys.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:22:49 AM 
Subject: Re: [ale] Survey -- preferred Text Editor 



vim 

I'm similar. I began using vi coding on Wyse or Link terminals and 
the flow control never worked. You couldn't just hold an arrow key 
down or the terminal would get completely hosed up. So I was forced 
to learn and use all the vi movements, like w for next word and $ for 
end of line, and eventually more complicated ones. They became 
muscle memory and now I can edit much faster in vim usually. 


Occasionally I'll use Netbeans when I'm doing GUI development 
or some of it's handy refactoring tools, but I still use vim. The trick 
I think is getting past the basic learning curve--it's a horrible editor 
when you only use the arrow keys, insert, and backspace, which I've 
seen some sysadmins & programmers do in the past. 


Scott 
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