1. Assignment 6 Navigation VI Editor comparison
Jeff Offutt
SWE 205
Software Usability Analysis and Design

2. 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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 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
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7. 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
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