2010-07-28

switching religions

Today, I switched religions.

I used to be a vim man, and now I use emacs.

That's right, I've changed my default text editor

pretty big news eh?

it is actually, as a basic text editor is something I use most of the day.
Which makes it one of my main tools.

At uni, everyone used vim.
And at work everyone used vi.
Then when we all started working on Java, we all started using eclipse, and defaulted to vi for basic duties.
These days, most people use either vim or notepad++, or something very close to notepad++.

In fact, I think I've only _met_ one person who used anything other than vi (or some basic windows text editor).

Yesterday I read a blog, and somehow it convinced me to change my default text editor, which has only happened once before (from vim to notepad++).

http://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs

Already, (after half a day) I'm finding some basic tasks easier or quicker.

I'm converted!