From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 20 00:51:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA29612 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:51:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from carlton.innotts.co.uk (root@carlton.innotts.co.uk [194.176.128.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA29607 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:51:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from [194.176.130.81] (serialB10.innotts.co.uk [194.176.130.81]) by carlton.innotts.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA17444; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 08:50:19 GMT X-Sender: robmel@mailhost.innotts.co.uk Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <199702200731.RAA09392@ogre.devetir.qld.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 08:50:17 +0000 To: Stephen McKay , Eivind Eklund From: Robin Melville Subject: Re: text editors Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 5:31 pm +1000 20/2/97, Stephen McKay wrote: >Eivind Eklund wrote: > >>(Emacs does close to everything, but has a user interface with a steep >>learning and retaining-curve. If you start using the features you'll be >>addicted and never be able to change to anything else. You'll be >>frustrated about the things it does badly (which exist), but won't be able >>to change to anything else.) > >Wow! This is the same way I feel about vi (addicted, never switch, >frustrated by the stupid bits). Tried emacs once, but the weight of all >those extra bits on my hard disk made my PC lopsided and it fell of the >desk! :-) > Is it true as rumoured that emacs stands for Eight Megabytes and Continues to Swap? Rob. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 work: robmel@nadt.org.uk home: robmel@innotts.co.uk Pages: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~robmel (home page) http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt (substance misuse pages) ----------------------------------------------------------------------