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Re:Turning off syntax highlighting by dozzie on Sunday November 06, 2016 @07:13PM (#12887900)
> I get a lot of (good-natured) crap from other developers because I always use a graphical tool to [...]

One of my colleagues uses PyCharm, while at the same time using Vim somewhere else (for both Python and not Python). This frustrated me a little every time he asked me to his terminal in a similar fashion I'm annoyed by somebody using GUI for the simplest task I could do in a single command. In both cases I try to keep comments to myself, at least now that I'm a little wiser than I was five-to-ten years ago.

It takes a lot of patience not to throw such "good-natured crap" if one is proficient with more-basic-yet-powerful tools. It needs wisdom to recognize that people do things their own way because it's more effective for them at the moment, and it's hard to change one's habits on a whim at arbitrary times. It gives me much better results to call others to my terminal to show them some interesting thing; they are in much better condition to learn a new Vim command or CLI tool (this way I successfully exposed two colleagues to AWK, what I planned for a long time).

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