Learning curves of different editors

[giza]

Ripped from theweaselking:

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[camstone.livejournal.com]

The two axes are... what?

[zenmouse.livejournal.com]

It's a "learning curve", so one would presume, time / knowledge.

[zenmouse.livejournal.com]

Or rather knowledge / time

[furahi.livejournal.com]

LOL

[tosdragon.livejournal.com]

I love it. Especially as emacs has left me sitting in places, on more than one occasion, thinking "What the hell did I hit to do that?"

Giggle.

[awolf.livejournal.com]

This really made me chuckle. :) I hate vi, emacs, and visual studio with a passion.

I have to add that there is more to learn about Notepad than most people realize, though. Most people haven't made friends with the cut + paste commands that work through the Ins and Del keys. You can select and move text at a very rapid speed with those because they're right next to Home and End, and you're using Shift and Ctrl with the other hand. I once impressed a friend of mine who used vim regularly with how fast and error-free I could edit in Notepad.

Trickster

Re: Giggle.

[giza.livejournal.com]

See, the problem is that after using vi's arcane commands regularly for some years, I'm used to doing something like "3dd" to whack 3 lines and then "P" to paste them in further down. Much quicker than doing the same thing in notepad, which feels like a bike with training wheels that I can't remove.

Plus I can do the exact same thing in vi over ssh.

You forgot TECO

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Which, I'm guessing, would be the graph y=1/x. It starts at a number, which theoretically is very close to infinity, but is undefined and therefore useless as far as knowledge is concerned.

TECO: Even line noise executes!

Re: Giggle.

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

THe problem is that once you have learned vi/vim, you quickly start trashing files in notepad... and wondering why you can't bail out with {ESC}:q!

[kellic.livejournal.com]

VI. OMG you mentioned the evil that is....NEVER mentioned "that" editor ever again. I used it in my intro to Unix class. I just about walked out of the class. Thing makes you want to gnaw your arm off and beat the computer with it.

[justincheetah.livejournal.com]

Damn that's funny, Giza. Made me laugh out loud for quite some time.

vi forever. And not that vim crap. BSD vi!

=^.^=

Re: Giggle.

[ex-purpleca.livejournal.com]

I have that very issue with Word, especially when I'm working through some process in vi (and other tools), while documenting it for a customer in word. Drives me batty!