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 > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >