From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 30 20:50:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.unixg.ubc.ca (mail.unixg.ubc.ca [137.82.27.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F5015123 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 20:50:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dustinl@interchange.ubc.ca) Received: from netinfo3.ubc.ca ([137.82.27.47] ident=dustinl) by mail.unixg.ubc.ca with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10oJ5d-00059I-00 for stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 30 May 1999 20:50:17 -0700 Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 20:50:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Dustin Lang X-Sender: dustinl@netinfo3.ubc.ca To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Ramblings (aka, Editor Holy Wars) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi again, When composing my original message I knew I shouldn't have even mentioned editors. I've received lots of messages and I've also done some reading about vi. I must say, I have quite a bit more respect for vi and a little bit of perspective of where it fits in the grand scheme of editors. Thanks to everybody for setting me straight. Personally, I think the editor holy wars are just one indicator of one of the things I love about Unix - there are often many ways of doing things. I also believe in using a tool suitable to the job at hand. Use what works and what makes you happy. Just be glad that choices exist in our world, unlike the world owned by some company whose name I can't seem to remember... Just my 0.02... dstn. ---------------------------------------------------- -- Dustin Lang, dustinl@interchange.ubc.ca -- (java developer, unix guy, freak with rainbow hair) User, n.: a particularly slow and unreliable input/ output device that is attached by default to the standard input and output streams. (stolen from a Gamelan article, author unknown) ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message