[Swansea Hackspace] Text Editor for code...

[Justin Mitchell]

On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 23:09 +0000, Emyr Morris wrote:
> Vim is shell?

vim opens in the current terminal,  gvim opens its own window

When editing a local file i use gvim as you get better choices for
syntax highlighting colour schemes.

> I do very little in shell as I can have forty plus scripts open at
> once in tabs.
I find lots of files open to be counter-productive, when working on a
large project i will only have 3 or 4 open at a time, the one i'm
working on, one that called it, a header file or two.

having lots of files open gets in the way when you use the ctags
support, as it tries to take your current window to the right line and
file only to find that file is already open in another window and it has
to warn you.