Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 12:17:46 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991124121746.C2554@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <19991124135521.44585@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>; from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com on Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:55:21PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231240360.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <00e101bf3681$44cb04a0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> <19991124103253.B2554@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <19991124135521.44585@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 01:55:21PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
> OK, I've said my piece here, and I disagree entirely. But it's not up
> to me; I've been using Emacs and similar editors for 20 years. The
> real question is: what do newbies think? Anybody want to comment?
> Also, Brooks, have you *used* Emacs? Recently? If so, I'd like to
> know what you consider non-intuitive.
OK, I'll qualify my statement. I haven't used emacs all that recently,
I think it was about 4-5 years ago when I last tried it for much of
anything. It's a perfectly good editor, much like Linux is a perfectly
good operating system, it's just one I choose not to use. I won't
defend it and I may poke fun it it's relative memory footprint and
insanely large feature set, but I don't intend to slam it. When I tell
people to use a real editor I usually mention both emacs and vi, I just
can't help them with emacs since the emacs skills pretty much stop at
bailing out so I can reset the EDITOR variable to vi and get back to
work. ;-)
It's possible that emacs might even make me more efficient, but I doubt
I'd make up the time I'd lose retraining myself to do that things I know
how to do in vi. That's especially true since last time I looked,
number of them didn't appear to have 1-1 mappings meaning I had to
change my whole paradigm not just the keys I press.
-- Brooks
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have, nor do they deserve, either one"
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