[Tutor] IDLE as battery included

[Andrei Kulakov]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:02:07PM -0500, dman wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 06:44:09PM -0500, Andrei Kulakov wrote:
> | On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 12:34:14PM -0000, alan.gauld@bt.com wrote:
> 
> | > If you are using number targets then turning on line numbering 
> | > helps a lot - then you can just use G....
> | > 
> | > :set nu
> | 
> | Yes, that's a good idea.. gg is even better, no reaching for the shift
> | button ;P Too bad nu takes up alot of space on the left. 7 spaces even
> | when the highest line nubmer takes only 2 spaces! I hope this can be
> | changed somehow..
> 
> This is one of the main reasons I don't use that feature.  Also, I'm
> not used to seeing the numbers on the left.
> 
> However, there was a patch posted to vim-dev recently to allow
> adjusting the width of the column used for the numbers.  Care to test
> it :-)?

Well, I'd rather have it grow to the width of the widest line number..
If there's 100 lines, it should be 3 spaces wide, and so on. This patch
only lets you hard-set it?

> 
> | > A 10 year vi user :-)
> | > And 12 year emacser... :-)
> 
> Is this in parallel or in series?  I learned 'vi' first, but I only
> knew the basics and Sun's /bin/vi is horrible for coding.  Then I used
> emacs for a while, but switched to vim when my labs were in a room
> with windows and we weren't allowed to install anything (vim fits on a
> floppy).  I very quickly forgot most of the emacs commands I knew, and
> I also learned how to configure vim for comfortable coding.  I've
> since tried some IDEs like Code Warrior, JBuilder, NetBeans, and Source
> Navigator, but vim is still the best (IMO, obviously).
> 
> -D
> 
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