[CLUE-Talk] Intriguing project

[Matt Gushee]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 08:49:35PM -0600, David Anselmi wrote:
> Jeffery Cann wrote:
> 
> > As a vi (actually vim now) lover, I agree totally.  I would much rather keep
> > my hands on the keyboard and use vi commands than the mouse.  Of course, you
> > could argue that your email editor should have a vi emulator, right?
> 
> You're kidding, right?  My email editor should emulate vi - absolutely!  If
> you're writing an email program, why do you have to write an editor for it - just
> plug in vi or emacs (user's choice).  Elm did that, can't gui programs do it
> too?  Maybe I'm too idealistic.

Not at all. It's happening already--check out KVim:

  http://www.freehackers.org/kvim/index.html

> One thing puzzles me.  The IDEs I've seen can do many things for you but they
> aren't very programmable.  So if they don't do what you need (or they don't do it
> the way you'd like) you're stuck.  Don't programmers prefer programmable tools?

Within reason. I dropped XEmacs for ViM because I wanted to spend a little
less time programming my tools.

-- 
Matt Gushee
Englewood, Colorado, USA
mgushee at havenrock.com
http://www.havenrock.com/