From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-09-24T04:37:01+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the best ruby editor?

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 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".

I've hated vi since 1984 when I wrote a vi clone in VAX assembler, using 
vi as my editor. I guess I was corrupted by WordStar before that ;)

Emacs never really won me over either, despite me being a lisp junkie.

Actually, vi is useful when you have to ssh over a slow link, like a 
GPRS modem.

Nedit[1][2] is a nice little editor, but it would be nicer if it were 
better maintained and had a ruby scripting interface.

[1] http://www.nedit.org/
[2] http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby_nedit/

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