David Ching wrote:
I couldn't disagree more. I type 80 wpm and have experience with
Epsilon, vi, Brief, and Codewright. And I abandoned all of those for the
IDE. A text editor is simply NOT the most important tool we have, and
hasn't been ever since GUI programming took off. Integrated resource
editing and debugging easily trump this. And wait until you design a UI
with Expression Blend. You'd better like your mouse. A lot. The
Microsoft IDE team knows this. You are no longer their target customer.
David:
Maybe I am one of Joe's "don't know any better" people but I like the VS
editor. I was never so miserable as when I was coding on Unix with Emacs
(except when I tried to use vi over telnet). I do a lot of cross-platform
work, and these days I always do the development in VS and run the code
through CVS to get it to the Unix/Linux machines (which are at my
customer's location).
I like using the mouse. When I am looking at some code (trying figure how
to fix it..) I like to sit back and use the mouse only. When I am ready to
code, then I sit forward and type (two fingers I'm afraid).
--
David Wilkinson
Visual C++ MVP