From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 30 01:48:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA04859 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 01:48:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from muswell.demon.co.uk (muswell.demon.co.uk [158.152.10.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA04854 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 01:48:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk) Received: (from ruth@localhost) by muswell.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.6.12) id KAA00379; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 10:02:41 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 10:02:41 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199803300902.KAA00379@muswell.demon.co.uk> From: ruth moulton MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Joey Garcia Cc: Capriotti , "John M. Purser" , "FreeBSD Newbies (E-mail)" Subject: Re: John's Progress Report - The Saga Continues In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.32.19980328011806.00938950@pop.mpc.com.br> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Cc: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Disposition-notification-to: ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joey Garcia writes: > Heheheh, wanna start a religious war? How about Emacs vs Vi. Now that > would be a hella war. :) Although, I'm not an expert at either one of > them, but I like xemacs cause I can point and click. :) > I started using emacs before there was xwindows, so it gave me multiple windows on a dumb terminal screen I still use it (x and non-x versions) for my e-mail reader/composer (user agent) my development environment (integilgent make/correct source and debug) I can point,click,cut and paste my shell (within emacs, and from kshell) my source code editor (it understand C synctax enough to help with missing brackets etc, does indentation etc - and other languages ) I don't read news much, but if I did... it has it's faults, but it has so much going for it nowdays my fingers know the commands without my having to tell them, so I'm not about to change to anything else. I know vi and ed enough to work when I visit other sites, at least they are universally available on all unix systems... I find it's really useful to know ed, for mending very broken systems, for speed and simplicity, across slow network links, at other sites. What does linux have as it's basic editors ? ruth -- ================================================ Ruth Moulton ruth@muswell.demon.co.uk Consultant 65 Tetherdown, London N.10 1NH, UK Tel:+44 181 883 5823 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message