Why is a macbook seen as best for programming?

UK-AL05 · 21 Oct 2011 at 21:44

dasyad said:
Crazy! I've not tried to use it but I've seen someone use it, and it just seems to difficult to use

It's not that hard, it full of composed shortcuts.

Like 5w, skips the cursor 5 words.

3j7w skips 3 lines, then 7 words.

You can built up very complicated shortcuts, and completely transform a documents in a few keystrokes.

Like copy 6 lines, and repeat paste every 5 lines.

RomanNose · 21 Oct 2011 at 21:45

dasyad said:
Crazy! I've not tried to use it but I've seen someone use it, and it just seems so difficult to use

I use nano, does that warrant the arrest and punishment of me?

dasyad · 21 Oct 2011 at 21:51

chaosdestro0 said:
I use nano, does that warrant the arrest and punishment of me?

Yes

. In fact I'm certain nano is something I tried using once at uni and I seemed to be able to get around but not do anything advanced with it. I think I just have a general phobia of terminal apps and prefer a GUI.

UK-AL05 · 21 Oct 2011 at 21:52

dasyad said:
Yes . In fact I'm certain nano is something I tried using once at uni and I seemed to be able to get around but not do anything advanced with it. I think I just have a general phobia of terminal apps and prefer a GUI.

That's because nano is not that advanced...

dasyad · 21 Oct 2011 at 22:01

UK-AL05 said:
That's because nano is not that advanced...

That'll be my issue then

but yeah I just find GUI's easier to work with in general, maybe I'm just more comfortable with a mouse than a keyboard.

rogan · 21 Oct 2011 at 22:04

vim's really good, i generally do all my stuff in vim, especially since actually getting the hang of LaTeX everythings a lot easier

Hades · 21 Oct 2011 at 22:21

I used to use vi on AIX years ago and did like it (I came from a mainframe background so quite used to keyboard control rather than mouse). The beauty of vi (of which vim is a variant) is that it is usually installed on just about every Unix like system out there. And you can still use it even if you have to ssh into a headless system.

I'm a little out of practice now though

ng93 · 21 Oct 2011 at 22:24

qqg3 said:
You're missing the point that there is no physical right-click, it's a nuisance having to for ctrl every time I want to right-click.

This is one argument that apple haters at my college always bring up, which is weird as i've had my macbook for 2 and 1/2 years and have never used ctrl to right click. Always just tap with two fingers on the trackpad, much easier.

V4NT0M · 21 Oct 2011 at 23:59

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