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Date:      Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:59:34 -0500
From:      "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org>
Cc:        JD Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?
Message-ID:  <fb6605670601091259h3414c16dhe744030ba4fc0fce@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <43C2C7FE.1010703@chuckr.org>
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On 1/9/06, Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> wrote:
> you're certainly giving a viewpoint that has a great deal of truth to
> it, but I guess what scares folks is the horrible, horrible emacs
> learning curve,.  At one point in my career (in school, lisp
> programming) I learned/used emacs.  I admit, it's got so much power,
> there isn't even a close competitor.

Actually, I find Vim superior in most respects. I would use Emacs if
someone would fix the broken modes that are accepted as best-in-class
for most of the uses that I need. Meanwhile, Vim just works.

Mike
--
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein



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