Re: Re: Re: Is this book dated?

Marnen Laibow-Koser
Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:02:07 -0000

Michael Pavling wrote:
> On 7 July 2010 15:30, Marnen Laibow-Koser
<lists-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> visual debugging and the Git plugin might be a good combination if both
work.
>
> The Git plugin was a bit poor when I used it last (six months ago
> now...). But the Mercurial plugin works just fine for me!
>
>> Except...while writing this, I just found out that NB (like Eclipse)
>> *still* doesn''t have word wrap in 6.9, even though it was
promised.
>> Generally speaking, I don''t like to work in an editor without
word wrap.
>> Back to Komodo, I suppose. �Oy.
>
> See... it''s horses for courses...

That''s actually not what the phrase means; it means more like "use
the
right tool for the job at hand". :)

> I *hate* word-wrapping! And turn it
> off on any editor I can :-)

My goodness, why?  It''s long been a tenet of user interface design that
any interface that requires horizontal scrolling of text probably needs
to be redesigned.  I do occasionally write and read long lines of code,
and it''s essential to me to not have to lose context by scrolling
horizontally.  (Granted, it doesn''t happen often in Ruby since the
syntax is so terse, but when I need it, I *really* need it.)

Anyway, we''re going way off topic here, so I probably
shouldn''t go on.

Best,
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Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
marnen-sbuyVjPbboAdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org

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