Redcar: Textmate-ish programmer’s editor for Gnome with bundles support

Re:Redcar: Textmate-ish programmer’s editor for Gnome with b... by nailer on Friday March 20, 2009 @02:00PM (#525310)

But vi (and likely emacs as well) has terrible discoverability. I can modify my gedit or eTextEditor syntax highlighting easily. You could spend an hour learning how to do the same in vi. Hell, to even find 'colorscheme' you'd have to wonder round vimtutor for ages.

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Re:Redcar: Textmate-ish programmer’s editor for Gnome with b... by aaronblohowiak on Saturday March 21, 2009 @05:42AM (#526053)

You're right. But it isn't hard to learn with a deliberate effort to do so. You have to treat it like learning a new programming language. When you do that, and read a book on it ( i like http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Editor-Nutshell-Linda-Lamb/dp... ) then it comes together and you start to really feel like a maestro.

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Re:Redcar: Textmate-ish programmer’s editor for Gnome with b... by jherdman on Friday March 20, 2009 @04:39PM (#525536)

This was my biggest beef with Vim when I started using it. gVim just doesn't have the ease of configurability as Textmate either. Syntax definitions and highlighting in Textmate is also easier. Aside from that, I'm happy in Vim-land.

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