Funny dialogue during the Keynote code demos, regarding which editor to use to write the code. The recap:
- Don Box - emacs. “God's editor“. Multiple buffer support, flipping between files is a breeze for Don.
- Jim Alchin - vi. Yuck! Interesting to see how the chosen editor affects his coding style. For example, defer writing the closing curly braces for a function until you code the function body. I guess this makes sense, cuz it's too much work to flip into “move“ mode, just to write the ending curly, then come back up to where you want to write the code.
- Chris Anderson - Slick Edit. Haven't seen this before, probably worth checking out. Looked like some line copy/delete functions...
Personally, I'll stick with the VS IDE. I take flack for this at work, but with all my macros, add-ins, etc. this IDE does the job for me!!