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Re:2009 Rubyist's guide to a Mac OS X development environment by Hexstream on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @05:15PM (#540847)
Emacs and Vim have ridiculous learning curves. Their practitioners wouldn't be so fanatic about them if anyone could unlock their powers in a day. However if you're ready to make a real commitment to learning it, you might get a great return on investment down the line. Learning about all the great programmers who favorite those editors might give you enough faith to give it a serious try.
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Re:2009 Rubyist's guide to a Mac OS X development environment by gord on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @06:38PM (#540980)
disclaimer - Im a daily vim user.

I think the {derivative of the} learning curve has a long tail.. I keep finding new cool things I can do with it, I guess emacs is the same, or even more so as you can start hacking lisp...

I recommend printing out a cheat sheet with the most common commands - you can start small and get work done.

Things like <esc> :E for browsing files is handy and youll forget them at first. I map a hotkey for :bn :bp so I can flick through the open buffers.

Good tuts on the web. It packs a punch.

oh, on ubuntu youll need to install vim-full

  sudo apt-get install vim-full
.. thats annoying, but you'll be crippled without it.
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Re:2009 Rubyist's guide to a Mac OS X development environment by kuvkir on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @05:50PM (#540914)
I wouldn't say Vim has a ridiculous learning curve, it took me about 5 minutes to read through vimtutor and get started with vim.

However, being a vim adept for a long time hasn't stopped me from switching to textmate when it came to developing rails apps. ;)

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