--- Jason Munro wrote:
Damn. I can't resist :)
Even though I am a die hard VIM user and have been using it for coding for a long time I will not argue that it's intuitive by any means :) However I would argue that with some investment you can easily achieve all of what you are looking for and much more with a speed you cannot match with a graphical editor.
I can't resist either. You know I hear this all the time on the list. I'd have to see two users with equal experience in a vim and <insert gui editor here>. I've tried learning vim. I can manage to use it, but unless it were something I needed to learn and use 4-8 hours a day I don't see how I'd ever become proficient at it. I also don't see how any CLI text editor could be faster to use than an intuitive graphical borwser. Unless you are talking about the speed of the software as opposed to the amount of time a user spends writing. Vim may be a great editor but it has a huge learning curve. Text editors shouldn't have learning curves, that eats into productivity. Take a paper and pencil for example, even my toddler girl can use them to write with (nothing intelligible, but that's OT).
Brian JD </throws wood on the fire> :')
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