From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-24T01:00:47+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the best ruby editor?

David Vallner wrote:
> Vim WILL break your brain horribly if you're used to other editor types,
> and if you're fine with Eclipse or jEdit, I doubt there's anything to be
> gained wasting your time on editor-hopping.
The converse is true -- if you're used to Vim, it's tough to break out 
of the Vim mindset. My fingers have been doing "vi" since about 1986. I 
should have learned Emacs but "they" told me it was a memory hog, so I 
learned "vi".

But I will throw in another "interesting" editor -- Leo. It's 
essentially an outliner geared towards so-called "Literate Programming". 
It's written in Python, though, so if the idea of large constrictors 
around your lab bothers you, stay away from it.It's also in a constant 
state of flux -- the author and a small community of users are 
constantly tweaking it. But it can be used as a "light IDE" -- the 
essential structure of a document is XML, but you can "clone" nodes in 
the tree to give a directed acyclic graph structure instead of just a tree.