Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 19:25:29 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991124192529.A2201@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19991123181858.20266@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> References: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231240360.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <19991123153032.60087@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991123211822.B2618@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19991123181858.20266@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at 21:18:22 +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
>> Indeed, if James thinks Vi is bad, he obviously hasn't even seen Emacs,
>> let alone used it. :-)
>
> Have you?
Yes, but to be honest I haven't used it much. I've installed the package
a few times, thinking I'd give it a try, but I never got further than
running it on some file, finding it far too different to Vi for me to
ever get used to, exiting it and pkg_deleting it. Perhaps I should give
it time, but to be honest Vi does everything I need (and probably much
more). Vi just feels "right" to me, somehow. I suppose we all have our
personal preferences which are unlikely to get changed once you've been
using an editor for a while.
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