From: "Len Philpot" 

> mother. The parallel drawn in the article is that programmers are much the
> same about their editors. Whatever, you first become proficient with, is
> the one you will prefer for the rest of your life or career - whichever
> comes first.
>
> I cut my teeth on minis and superminis and the one common denominator was
> Emacs. Back in the back of my office, I have three different sizes of

I became reasonably proficient (at least as far as my needs were concerned)
with Boxer for DOS several years ago and it was hard to give it up when the
PC world went graphical. Although David Hamel certainly has a fine product
in the current Windows version, I still use the DOS version (TKO) from time
to time. However, since becoming involved with Solaris/Linux five years
ago, I've come to appreciate the power of Vi(m). I'm no master by any
stretch, but it seems there's little if any limit to what can be done once
you come to terms with it. As Sven Guckes says, it's definitely a power
tool, the use of which must be learned. These days where I'm currently
running Windows only, Gvim is indispensible, although I do miss running it
in a *nix environment. Running *nix tools on a non-*nix OS really exposes
the integration of the tools with the OS.

It's always seemed to me that a text editor is an excellent platform for a
developer to illustrate his/her skill... rather unassuming to the
uninitiated, but once you see how some editors can walk and talk it really
generates respect in my mind for those developers (such as Hamel, Bram
Moolenaar and others, etc.).

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