Textpad is pretty good. But it’s really missing things like HTML/XML tag auto-closing and ctags autocomplete. Vim has both and they rock. The autocomplete saves so much typing and stops so many typos in code.
I just can’t get into mutt. It’s probably because there’s less reward. With vim it’s awful at first (even after a long time it’s kind of awful), but you use it so much that it becomes obvious that’s it’s really useful. I don’t use email nearly so much, so it would take heaps longer to learn it. And every morning when you go to read email you have to choose what application you’ll do it in.
What about:
scp, ping, netstat, gdb, and strace.
And For Windows
winscp and putty
David / 1:35pm / 30 January 2004
And although mutt may not be one of your favourites Ryan, it should be. Learn to love it then add it to your list already.
Andy / 7:55pm / 31 January 2004
What about top? It is very good for looking at system load and runs in a console.
David / 10:10pm / 2 February 2004
what about textpad?
chris / 3:23pm / 4 February 2004
Textpad is pretty good. But it’s really missing things like HTML/XML tag auto-closing and ctags autocomplete. Vim has both and they rock. The autocomplete saves so much typing and stops so many typos in code.
I just can’t get into mutt. It’s probably because there’s less reward. With vim it’s awful at first (even after a long time it’s kind of awful), but you use it so much that it becomes obvious that’s it’s really useful. I don’t use email nearly so much, so it would take heaps longer to learn it. And every morning when you go to read email you have to choose what application you’ll do it in.
Ryan / 12:45am / 11 February 2004
I should add ratpoison to this list.
Ryan / 11:44am / 22 March 2006