[Wylug-discuss] Favourite FOSS apps and tools?

[Dave Whiteley]

On Friday 22 June 2007 16:42, John Hodrien wrote:
> 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

I don't think gvim existed (of course I am open to correction) when we had to 
choose a ?nix editor and write the course materials.  ;-}

Dave
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