> Don't do what I did. I try. I don't think going from a GUI editor to Emacs was a complete waste of my time and I still like it a lot BUT whenever you make th

> Don't do what I did. I try. I don't think going from a GUI editor to Emacs was a complete waste of my time and I still like it a lot BUT whenever you make that kind of switch you gotta stay out of the "this is the best thing ever" mentality. Instead of seeing $EDITOR as the Holy Grail that cannot be eclipsed by anything (which is false) I see it as my favorite tool in a toolbox. I like it but I also recognize it's just one of many tools and it's not always the one I should use and getting frustrated at the differences is pointless. That last bit took a while for me to realize. I think what helped was seeing other people code without my favorite editor with an IDE or something. Watching Notch coding an FPS using an IDE caused quite a few of us in the HN thread that followed to just kinda take a step back. I'm still relatively new to programming so hey thanks for the advice.