14 Jan
2003
14 Jan
'03
1:01 p.m.
Philip wrote:
After all these year, I don't think I could be as
productive with
another editor. It's not that joe is a stunning editor (it lacks some
features that I loved in quickedit/tse32), but I don't want to "waste"
time learning to do something (edit code) that I can already do very
well.
I'm certainly not going to tell you that you're wrong. If it works for
you, and you're happy with it, there's no reason to change.
I went through a similar progression, with Wordstar (starting in 1978,
if memory serves), then the Borland IDEs, and a few other programs that
used the Wordstar key bindings.
Around 1984 I was thrust into an environment where the only choices for
a screen editor were vi and jove. I quickly determined that vi was an
abomination, and learned jove. Jove is a simple editor using the basic
emacs key bindings. Jove wasn't particularly powerful, but "real" emacs
was too slow on the VAX-11/750. Since then I've used Gosling Emacs, then
GNU Emacs, with detours into MicroEmacs on MS-DOS. At this point I
wouldn't dream of using anything but GNU Emacs, though I do keep a copy
of Jove around for emergencies. I'm amazed that I was ever satisfied
with Wordstar.