Which D IDE do you use?(survey)

w0rp via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Apr 12 12:47:45 PDT 2015


On Sunday, 12 April 2015 at 19:41:10 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 17:59:45 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> On 04/10/2015 01:28 AM, Szymon Gatner wrote:
>>
>> > A lot must have changed since I  used Vim few years ago then.
>>
>> I hope this is not taken as an attack on Vim users but from my 
>> limited observations at work, users of Emacs use it powerfully 
>> and users of Vim use it as a simple editor.
>>
>> One example is dealing with multiple files (buffers): I and 
>> all the other Emacs users have dozens of files open at a time, 
>> switching between them seemlessly. I don't even close my Emacs 
>> sessions for months.
>>
>> On the other hand, most of the Vim users keep a single file 
>> open at a time. It is painful for me to watch how a Vim user 
>> goes to the definition of 'struct' that is already open in a 
>> .c file: exit Vim, change directory to 'include', start Vim 
>> again with the .h file. Argh! :)
>>
>> Ali
>
> It pains me to watch "vim users" do this. I'm an Emacs user 
> myself, but I _know_ that what they're doing isn't necessary. I 
> think I know more about vim than they do.
>
> Atila

I personally use GVim with tabs and alias gvim in my terminal to 
open files in a new tab. I even use :mksession from time to time 
to save my current Vim session. Often I do like to start again, 
which I also do with my web browser, because starting from just a 
few files helps me think.


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