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Re: learning programming
- To: Documentation and Translation <doc at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: learning programming
- From: Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:20:04 -0800 (PST)
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--- Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com> wrote:
> I don't understand what is difference between a GUI editor
> like kate or gedit and Emacs or Vi ? Can you explain ?
Kate and gedit, among others, are word processors where-as
emacs and vi/vim are text editors. A simple way to think
about it is that Kate/gedit/abiword, etc allow you to add
italic/bold/underline, etc to your text and you will see those
on the screen (akin to OpenOffice.org's Writer). You can do
those things in emacs/vim but that would not be the "normal"
mode (LaTeX comes to mind). When you program those fancy
character settings and formating are not required and thus
become a burden and a simple text editor is all you'll need.
My $0.02's worth - hope that helps.
Eid Mubarak to all & Salam.
- Nadim
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