[CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Sun Aug 10 22:40:14 UTC 2008


On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:04:16 -0500
> Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Should I try to learn
>> vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to
>> administer a remote box)  or install Emacs or something else,
>> for the gcc editor?
>
> That's the sort of question where, if you ask ten people for their opinion, you
> will get sixteen different answers.  At least.
>
> I personally use either vi or nedit, depending on what the current
> environment is and what I'm trying to accomplish.

OK, I'm the second of the sixteen answers.  I use vi and elvis (GUI
editor 100% compatible with vi).  I highly recommend you learn vi.
You will never regret  :-D

Akemi



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