YES... an emacs vi war...

emacs SUCKS! vi rules!

Thank you!

mcd

On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Yaron wrote:

>   Hey,
>
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Lorry wrote:
>
> > I already have to learn Lisp (and yes, Lisp, not Scheme... can't
> > remember who asked that) so I'm not real fond of the idea of having to
> > learn emacs on top of that.  I've been using vi for a few years now and
>
> I'm not really an editor zealot. I use VI a hell of a lot more than I use
> xemacs, when you get right down to it, and I think knowing how to use VI
> is really, really important to anyone doing anything with UNIX.
>
> The thing about XEmacs is you really don't need to learn much - the whole
> Insert-Mode/Command-Mode thing isn't there, there are pulldown menus and
> you can use the mouse for cut/paste stuff. Of course, you CAN learn the
> leyboard shortcuts. You _can_ go Ctrl-X Ctrl-S to save, but you can also
> click on the Save icon or chose File|Save from the menus. My wife's been
> using XEmacs for a few years (under Windoze too) and hasn't bothered to
> learn ANY keyboard shortcuts, nor needed them apparently.
>
> As for LISP, Emacs and XEmacs pretty much have builtin LISP interperters.
> You can totally interact and extend XEmacs with LISP.
>
> Then again I don't know LISP, and I only fire up Xemacs when I want to
> edit multiple files or want pretty syntax hilighting and auto intenting.
>
> -Yaron
>
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