Yeah games like WoW are designed to give you a guaranteed hit of accomplishment.
A concern I have is that this can tap away at certain personality types (perfectionists, ambitionally challenged) to not try create something in our main reality. Where success is not always as straight forward, and golden question marks don't drift around so visibly.
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Yeah games like WoW are designed to give you a guaranteed hit of accomplishment. A concern I have is that this can tap away at certain personality types (perfectionists, ambitionally challenged) to not try create something in our main reality. Where success is not always as straight forward, and golden question marks don't drift around so visibly.
I am a fan of gedit as well. Bracket matching and line auto-indentation is indeed available! (I am using version 2.20.3).
Also keep an eye on the plugin system taking off (python and c supported):
http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/Plugins
Gedit makes for a nice minimalistic editor that you can take as close to an IDE as you see fit.