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Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough?

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On 01/01/2013 02:02 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article  <mailman.1528.1357065822.29569.python-list@python.org>,
 > Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> wrote:
 >
 >> Clunky is the last word I'd use to describe it (ok maybe for Emacs :-)
 >> I probably remember about 200 commands, plus or minus, but a lot of them
 >> fit into a consistent scheme which makes them much easier to remember
 >
 > At some point, it becomes muscle memory, which means you don't even
 > consciously know what you're typing. Your brain just says, "delete the
 > next three words" and your fingers move in some way which causes that to
 > happen. This is certainly true with emacs, and I imagine it's just as
 > true with people who use inferior editors :-)
 >
 > I used to do a bunch of pair programming with another emacs power user.
 > Every once in a while, one of us would say something like, "What did you
 > just do?", when the other performed some emacs technique one of us was
 > not familiar with. Invariably, the answer would be, "I don't know", and
 > you would have to back up and recreate the key sequence. Or, just run
 > C-? l, which tells you the last 100 characters you typed.
 >
 > Case in point. I use C-? l moderately often, when I make some typo and
 > I'm not sure what I did wrong. But, despite the fact that my fingers
 > now how to perform "show me the last stuff I typed", I had to go hunting
 > to find the actual keystrokes which does that when typing the above
 > paragraph :-)


That's true with Vim, as well, especially when I'm making a custom
mapping and I can NEVER remember what some combination does, even though
if I actually needed to use it, it pops right out, so to find out, I
have to try it and then I say, "of course, dammit, I use this command 50
times every single day!"; so it's a curious case of one-directional
memory.


<subliminal 1-nanosecond BLINK TAG comment="hope this works, fingers
crossed" content="let's face it, Vim is BETTER as it has always been!">



-- 
Lark's Tongue Guide to Python: http://lightbird.net/larks/

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New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? mogul <morten.guldager@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 12:01 -0800
  Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? ian douglas <ian.douglas@iandouglas.com> - 2012-12-27 12:13 -0800
  Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Daniel Fetchinson <fetchinson@googlemail.com> - 2012-12-27 21:16 +0100
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  Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-27 15:57 -0500
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  Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-12-27 15:25 -0600
  Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-12-27 14:28 -0700
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  Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-12-28 10:37 +1100
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  Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? "TommyVee" <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx> - 2012-12-27 20:09 -0500
    Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-27 20:37 -0500
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      Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Monte Milanuk <memilanuk@gmail.com> - 2012-12-29 12:51 -0800
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          Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2012-12-29 17:10 -0500
          Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-30 09:30 +1100
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  Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-12-29 18:50 +0000
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    Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-30 11:54 +1100
  Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2012-12-29 14:00 -0500
    Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-01 03:46 +0000
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      Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-01-01 13:43 -0500
        Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-01-01 14:02 -0500
          Re: New to python, do I need an IDE or is vim still good enough? Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-01-01 14:32 -0500
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