On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:17:22 +0200, Shakthi Kannan shakthimaan@gmail.com said:
Hi, My thoughts below:
----- On 9/14/07, Roshan d_rosh2001@yahoo.co.in wrote:
I wonder, programmers under *nix, have Konsole ( ;) ) based text editors as well as GUI text editors (Just to differentiate for the sake of it: vim, nano and Kate, Emacs, gEdit) which provide syntax highlighting and a host of other options. Are they at a loss?
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When you work with console based-text editors, like vi or GNU Emacs you directly work with system RAM, so it is quite fast.
Emacs has had non-console properties for over a decade now. I have syntax based coloring, context sensitive menues, multiple frames, code browsing, integrated compile time error parsing, integrated debugger sessions.
And if you want to be fast with text-level coding, you shouldn't move your hand off the keyboard and find the mouse, and do this back and forth. It reduces your speed.
Absolutely. I don't have to take my hand off the keyboard to go from code to email to irc sessions with my co-workers discussing code while it is compiling in the background. If I ever met an IDE that was as competent as Emacs, I would switch. But Eclipse is bloatware that does not provide the capabilities that my Emacs does, so why bother?
manoj