[CALUG] Best programming app

[Rick Radzville]

Wow. I'm an expert microsoftie, linux newbie. This comment is the reason why 
I'm experimenting w/Linux. Jim, would you mind sharing a few more details? 
When you refer to "data", are you talking about "a listing of the 
directories & files on the user's PC" or "a database"?
v/r,
Rick Radzville


>From: Jim Sansing <jjsansing at comcast.net>
>To: lug at calug.com
>Subject: Re: [CALUG] Best programming app
>Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:43:17 -0500
>
>I don't know about supercharged, but powerful definitely.  I just
>love showing off in front of the microsofties at work, by pulling
>their data over to Linux, getting a listing of files and then using vi
>regexp's and commands to modify it, and giving them back.  All
>of this takes a couple of minutes in vi, where it would take an
>hour or more with the best M$ has to offer (whatever that
>might be).
>
>And it seems like I learn a new feature each month.  So as powerful
>as I have found it to be, I feel like I am using less than half of what
>it is capable of doing.  So come to think of it, it's really not a stretch
>to say that by taking full advantage of the PC101 keyboard (vim) and
>the mouse (gvim) is supercharging the already powerful vi.
>
>Later . . .   Jim
>
>
>Bryan Breen wrote:
> >Dave Dodge wrote:
> >
> >>There are plenty of career programmers who work in vi, or one of
> >>its supercharged variants such as vim.
> >>
> >
> >ROFLMAO! "supercharged"... I do all my web page development and
> >programming in vim, and that is the last adjective I would have ever
> >though of to describe it. I'll have a smile on my face for the rest of
> >the day now. :)
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