[Wylug-discuss] Favourite FOSS apps and tools?

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Dave Whiteley wrote:

> Well,  2d worth,
>
> I have tried hard to persuade undergraduates that (x)emacs is a better editor
> for programming than $soft notepad, and in rare cases have succeeded.
>
> I do not think that this would have been possible with vi.

You'd be surprised, as gvim is really quite easy to coax people to use.  gvim
works nicely under windows and comes with default 'personalities' to make
getting started easy.

jh

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