Assignment 6 Navigation VI Editor comparison Jeff Offutt http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~offutt/ SWE 205 Software Usability Analysis and Design

Editors compared Editor Students Editor Students Notepad++ 13 Eclipse Atom 2 Sublime Jgrasp Visual studio Editor Students DrJava 2 Bbedit 1 Text wrangler nano DevC++ None 27-Apr-19 © Offutt

Anything worth doing is worth doing right Please edit writing Anything worth doing is worth doing right Too many simple typos “you”—an informal, very personal style that should seldom be used in professional writing “in order”—Noise words that do not add content Stick to objective facts, not emotional outbursts Hint : Don’t type into piazza Write your first draft elsewhere Edit Copy and paste to piazza 27-Apr-19 © Offutt

General comments I hoped you would be more explicit about comparing the main criteria Learn, speed, errors Only a couple of students mentioned rate of errors Only two groups worked collaboratively Their submissions were two of the best It looked like few, if any, students looked at my handouts 27-Apr-19 © Offutt

Any mouse-based editor Vim Comparison Any mouse-based editor Vim Time to learn Rate of user errors Speed of use navigation … flexibility … modes … number of commands 27-Apr-19 © Offutt

vi, vim, gvim vi : Original runs in a terminal window vim : vi improved includes several features that modernized vi I don’t think anyone actually uses plain vi anymore except when initially configuring unix or linux gvim : A graphical version of vim 27-Apr-19 © Offutt

vi navigation Mouse, arrow keys h, j, k l, w, e, b, $, ^, H 5h, 8j, … {, }, [[, ]], fx, ^F, ^B, :25 /regexp/, n, ? … I probably missed a few … 27-Apr-19 © Offutt