From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 10:43:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17452151A7 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 10:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id MAA30794; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:41:50 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <199911241841.MAA30794@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? In-Reply-To: <199911241641.KAA26946@chiba.3jane.net> from "Damon M. Conway" at "Nov 24, 1999 10:41:43 am" To: damon@chiba.3jane.net (Damon M. Conway) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:41:49 -0600 (CST) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Damon M. Conway babbled: > From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 10:45:49 1999 > Greg Lehey wrote: > >On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at 21:18:22 +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > >> Greg Lehey wrote: > >> > >>> Oh yes, and you should try Emacs > >> > >> Indeed, if James thinks Vi is bad, he obviously hasn't even seen Emacs, > >> let alone used it. :-) > > > >Have you? > > i have...it's big, slow, overkill, and annoying. > > that's just my opinion, i could be wrong. :) You won't get anywhere with Greg with that attitude ... at least I haven't. :-) I found learning vi to be one of the most painful of my computer experi- ences. I've found knowing vi to be one of the most useful of my computer experiences. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H) jdunham@avalanche.us.dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message