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Re: Python IDE/text-editor

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rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> On Apr 17, 3:19 am, John Bokma <j...@castleamber.com> wrote:
>> rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > On Apr 16, 9:13 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Based on the comments here, it seems that emacs would have to be the
>> >> editor-in-chief for programmers. I currently use SciTE at work; is it
>> >> reasonable to, effectively, bill my employer for the time it'll take
>> >> me to learn emacs?
>>
>> > It takes a day or two to learn emacs.
>>
>> That's an extremely bold statement. I still haven't learned Emacs and
>> have read most of the Emacs manual, some parts twice.
>>
>> Unless you mean opening a file, saving a file, and some basic cursor
>> movements.
>
> Aren't there people (many in fact) who use notepad or equivalent to
> write programs?
> How many features do they use?
> How long would it take to make a map of those same features in emacs?

Yeah, if you bring it down to open a file, save a file, and move the
cursor around, sure you can do that in a day or two (two since you have
to get used to the "weird" key bindings).

> And add a handful more to make the switchover worthwhile?

That's somewhat I did: I used TextPad a lot, and at first I looked for
how to do what I could in TextPad in Emacs (hence reading the book). But
that took longer than a day.

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Re: Python IDE/text-editor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 02:13 +1000
  Re: Python IDE/text-editor rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 09:30 -0700
    Re: Python IDE/text-editor John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> - 2011-04-16 17:19 -0500
      Re: Python IDE/text-editor rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 19:04 -0700
        Re: Python IDE/text-editor John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> - 2011-04-16 22:22 -0500
          Re: Python IDE/text-editor rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 21:28 -0700
            Re: Python IDE/text-editor John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> - 2011-04-17 10:58 -0500
          Re: Python IDE/text-editor Bastian Ballmann <balle@chaostal.de> - 2011-04-17 10:35 +0200
            Re: Python IDE/text-editor John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> - 2011-04-17 11:03 -0500
          Re: Python IDE/text-editor Alec Taylor <alec.taylor6@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 20:03 +1000
            Re: Python IDE/text-editor Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-17 21:09 +1000
              Re: Python IDE/text-editor Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 14:24 +0200
              Re: Python IDE/text-editor sal migondis <salmig99@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 08:50 -0700
            Re: Python IDE/text-editor John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> - 2011-04-17 11:07 -0500
    Re: Python IDE/text-editor Krzysztof Bieniasz <krzysztof.t.bieniasz@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 23:12 +0000
      Re: Python IDE/text-editor rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 19:34 -0700
      Re: Python IDE/text-editor Westley Martínez <anikom15@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 13:05 -0700
        Re: Python IDE/text-editor Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-18 07:19 +1000
          Re: Python IDE/text-editor Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2011-04-17 17:46 -0500
  Re: Python IDE/text-editor Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2011-04-17 07:17 +0000
    Re: Python IDE/text-editor Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-17 18:20 +1000
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