From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 17 19:34:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA22594 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:34:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA22585 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:34:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA02705; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:03:53 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id MAA03753; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:03:52 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981018120352.R435@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 12:03:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: djv@bedford.net, Josh Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: emacs? References: <3623D54C.5045DBA@swbell.net> <199810171304.JAA10907@castor.chuck> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810171304.JAA10907@castor.chuck>; from Woodchuck on Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:04:04AM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 17 October 1998 at 9:04:04 -0400, Woodchuck wrote: > Josh wrote: >> what is emacs? > > emacs is to time as a black hole is to matter. > > It is the Tarbaby of editors. > > It's what you install when you're fed up with Unix. > > Emacs is the demonstration of the old saying that when all you > have is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a roast chicken. > > Emacs will teach you finger positions that make the Vulcan Death > Grip look easy. Emacs isn't an editor, it's a religion. If you get more than this answer, you're liable to get two completely different viewpoints: one group say it's the best thing that ever happened, the others think it's a symbol of doom. Once upon a time, Emacs was big, bloated and slow. Then other software caught up, and now it's not noticably worse than vi in memory consumption. Netscape and most Microsoft software make both look small and lean. On the other hand, Emacs is *much* easier to learn than vi. Use the X version. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message