From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 13:14: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318A314EEB for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:13:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11qi2j-0009qa-00; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 19:25:29 +0000 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 19:25:29 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Greg Lehey Cc: Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991124192529.A2201@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <009901bf35ee$d892ef60$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> <19991123153032.60087@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991123211822.B2618@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19991123181858.20266@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991123181858.20266@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message