Re: Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

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MHR wrote:

Vi is not the world's best editor

Heh, understatement of the century.
It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/her fired five minutes later. With no severance package.

It's one of the worst designs from a usability perspective. Yes, it's on every Unix system out there. Yes, it's very complex and can be powerful and can be extended to do a million things. Yes, you can train yourself so you learn it well enough so that the interface is not a problem anymore. But all that does not negate the basic fact that it's one of the most un-intuitive and essentially broken user interface designs ever. But we're stuck with it, which is unfortunate.

Note: I'm not an Emacs fan. :-)

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Florin Andrei

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