On 16/02/2021 10:56, Pancho wrote:
> On 16/02/2021 10:39, Nikolaj Lazic wrote:
>> Dana Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:28:39 +0000, Joe  napis'o:
>>> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 08:17:53 -0000 (UTC)
>>> Nikolaj Lazic  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dana Tue, 16 Feb 2021 02:24:59 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
>>>>  napis'o: [snip]
>>>>> But what do you mean by 'editor'
>>>>>
>>>>> I wouldn't use it to write a book in.
>>>>
>>>> Why not?
>>>> Even vim is enought to write any book in LaTeX.
>>>
>>> You could probably do that in Edlin.
>>>
>>> But there's a big difference between 'enough' and 'I would use it by
>>> preference'.
>>
>> But I do prefere vim and I do prefere LaTeX for anything that needs to
>> look right... as a proper document or a book.
>> And yes, I do prefere keyboard over mouse. :) It's faster!
>>
>
> Yes, we all know a proper vi user uses h j k l instead of cursors, so
> they don't move their fingers from the touch typing default position.
>
> Back in 1995 the team I worked on was allowed to switch c++ development
> from unix/vi to the Microsoft C++ IDE, pretty much everyone switched.
>
back in the day we could either edit in vi on the PDP 11, or use
wordstar on DOS and upload the code for compilations. I don't think
anyone worked in vi from choice except for minor mods.
I cant remember how we uploaded the code either - there was certainly no
TCP/IP - must have been over serial.


> For Latex try TexStudio.

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