Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 12:43:59 -0800 From: Marc Wandschneider <MarcW@Lanfear.com> To: 'Greg Lehey' <grog@lemis.com>, Mark Ovens <mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <13D5F9EDFD72D211BC3100105A1C2233054A69@akira.lanfear.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Lehey [mailto:grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com] > Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? > > > >> The real question is: what do newbies think? Anybody want to > >> comment? > > > > OK, I'll comment. Since this emacs v. vi thing has reared it's head > > again I used emacs instead of vi all day today (I even > renamed vi, and > > symlinked it to emacs to force myself). > > Brave man. With "newbie", I really meant somebody who hadn't used > either editor. I'm not trying to convert vi users. This debate is always pretty silly. My take: they're all cryptic and weird as hell. When I was first a CS student at the university, there were exactly two kinds of undergrads. 1. those who had somebody show them vi first 2. those who had somebody show them emacs/jove first I fell into the latter. When I first started up VI once, I panicked, ^Z and kill -9'd the damn thing. Now I can use it to do basic editing tasks. Those who first learned vi were even worse off with emacs, because the macros on our system didn't even let ^Z work on the thing -- they usually ended up logging off or killing a window. now, what I REALLY want is code colouring again. marc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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