On 16/02/2021 11:01, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> 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.
>


One of the guys I worked with wrote an emacs like editor for DEC, when
we moved from VMS to ultrix/sparcs he used vi, even after he got a unix
port of his editor.

The funny thing coding full time with vi is that my fingers didn't
forget it even after decades of not using it. I found it hard to
verbalise the keys I was using but my fingers just seemed to know.

>
>> For Latex try TexStudio.
>
> Must I?
>

Latex is cool, If you have a better editor I'm all ears.

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