[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[James Hawtin]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:01:32AM -0400, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> In the most basic case the mouse is a much faster interface for
> highlighting chunks of text that are more than a few lines away from the
> cursor, or more than a dozen characters into a line. In the more
> complex, more productive case would you care to explain to me how I
> would make better use of time saving GUI design tools such as Glade with
> a keyboard? Or maybe you can channel Mavis Beacon and touch type several
> hundred lines of error free code in the 5 minutes it takes me to build
> the core of a GUI app in Glade?

I find it fasinating that people consider the gui the "core" of an app, I
consider the processing logic to be the important thing, normally which
works from the command line then wrap that up into a library then slap a
front end on it. 

James
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