Re: Editors

[Matt Aylward]

On Thu, 18 May 2000, you wrote:
> What editors are people using (using Objective-C still!). I am still 
> crashing away in Emacs, which seems silly. Anyone using Erwin? Any other 
> suggestions? Are there new editors that are downloadable from the web at 
> all (I didn't see any on the Swarm site, but I don't know half of what I'm 
> looking at!).
> 

I cannot live without vim / gvim for coding. I use swarm in Obj-C only.
see: http://www.vim.org/
Here is a recent (today) quote about editors for coding

> i wouldn't try to persuade others to use vim; it's very hard for people
> starting to use a vi (clone) as opposed to other editors. so they won't
> believe that you can actually edit faster with it. i personally used
> to be a emacs follower myself.
>
> most people in my group are using visual cafe for coding, i used
> cygwin/gnu make and vim right from the start. even though they were
> constantly making fun of me, by now half of the group has vim not
> only installed but is actually using it. and we wouldn't have a clean
> production build if it wasn't for gnu make/cygwin...
>
> roman

Cheers,
Matt

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