> People who claim that vim/emacs are the ultimate environment typically have a very narrow world-view in my experience.
Yes, you add the word "typically" in there, so it's not technically an absolute, but really, what you're saying is not much better.
I'm not going to tell you that you need to abandon your IDE, but I use a DDE centered around Vim, and I like to think that I don't necessarily have a narrow world-view as a result of that choice, thank you very much.
That's not a response to his point. His point is not that vim users have a narrow worldview.
His point is that people who claim that vim is the ultimate environment have a narrow worldview.
Reading a tiny bit into what he said, he's judging those who would see their editor of choice as the ultimate, i.e., as seeing those who don't use it as using an inferior tool.
Well I claim vim is the ultimate editor (as it is my preference and opinion), and at the same time I can say that: Not only do I prefer Visual Studio when working on dot net stuff, AND not only do I prefer Eclipse most of the time when working with JAVA while using GUI Linux... but they're both most definitely a better choice than Vim in both cases. Using vim in both cases would be using the inferior tool. So he's wrong on his generalization. Moving along...
Honestly, what is the damn point anyways? He made a completely useless comment based on a bs assumption that in all honestly sounds more like a person who just got frustrated and decided to go against the flow of the river. I find it very annoying. Specially since this discussion always seems to start because the other side starts making the same generalization over and over and over again. Now I'm more annoyed. Hah.
and then:
> People who claim that vim/emacs are the ultimate environment typically have a very narrow world-view in my experience.
Yes, you add the word "typically" in there, so it's not technically an absolute, but really, what you're saying is not much better.
I'm not going to tell you that you need to abandon your IDE, but I use a DDE centered around Vim, and I like to think that I don't necessarily have a narrow world-view as a result of that choice, thank you very much.