Re: Any non-programmer users of Vim here?

On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:50 PM, John Little wrote:

> On Apr 9, 3:08 am, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> In addition to my other handicap -- not being a programmer -- I'm old.
>
> IMO, and IME, it's the opposite: being young is a handicap for
> learning to use a decent text editor. Young people get spoon-fed with
> brain-dead ways of doing things very early and often are very
> reluctant to unlearn those ways, especially generation Y. Hats off to
> those that do.

I have no experience of generation Y, that I know of anyway. From the beginning, I've been pretty stubborn about getting computers and applications to work in ways that make sense for me. Maybe I'm younger than them?

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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
eeweir@bellsouth.net

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