I don't think working with an IDE has enforced anything on me, although I did spend a while fixing what I think is the silly and ugly way VS automatically puts in curly braces. I also admit I don't have a clue about linking and makefiles because in any project I've worked on VS or Delphi has built everything for me at the hit of a couple of keys.

I suppose it's like deciding whether to use iTunes or Winamp. For me, iTunes's ease of use trumps even Winamp's AVS, and even when you use Winamp's excellent Super Mario skin.

I don't mind working with vim and have almost liked it for doing some cgi work where JEdit couldn't ftp to the server, but for me, when working on a big project a big IDE like Delphi, or especially VS, is great for its code completion and automatic hyperlinking. That is something I think is fantastic for navigating around my code, kind of like increasing the screen's resolution virtually.

Vim does have the benefit that in most cases it is white on black. At first I thought coding white on black was stupid, but Delphi's Twilight (which I had to tweak a bit in version 8) converted me. VS's flaw as an editor is that it doesn't have a white on black mode and it took me a while to set all the colours manually. JEdit is even worse in that regard - I just made the background light grey because there were so many other colours it used for highlighting that clashed with black.

How can you feel when you're made of steel? I am made of steel. I am the Robot Tourist.
Robot Tourist, by Ten Benson

In reply to Re^2: Code Readability. Break Rule Number 5? by robot_tourist
in thread Code Readability. Break Rule Number 5? by DACONTI

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