Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail From: Ben Finney Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Newbie Help References: <87fwfwz4ly.fsf@benfinney.id.au> X-Public-Key-ID: 0xAC128405 X-Public-Key-Fingerprint: 517C F14B B2F3 98B0 CB35 4855 B8B2 4C06 AC12 8405 X-Public-Key-URL: http://www.benfinney.id.au/contact/bfinney-pubkey.asc X-Post-From: Ben Finney Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:26:40 +1100 Message-ID: <87vcor9ptr.fsf@benfinney.id.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o2EGCBCxsPXptcCQDMxBQPppYd0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 22 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 07bb7b53.news.astraweb.com X-Trace: DXC=nc3MT]L;AL?0kYOcDh@J[^oANOZPWM@Zh[e@ZS;QSCl9B_G1R=S=GHW809;>nmQMEmJcWEm8g3NdZgTbbR?k\B Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:18512 Ben Finney writes: > * Cross-platform, so that you're not denied the use of any popular > workstation OS. > > For my purposes, either { GNU Screen + Bash + Emacs } or { GNU Screen + > Bash + Vim } are good choices satisfying all the above criteria. There > may be other good combinations. I slightly mis-spoke. Obviously GNU Screen and Bash are only truly available on Unix-like operating systems. But that's pretty much all of the popular workstation OSes except one. GNU Emacs and Vim are truly available on every popular workstation OS. Learn one of them well, and you will be able to take on the diversity of programming tasks much easier. -- \ “A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of | `\ widths.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney