From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 25 13:44:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1052F153BB for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:44:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA08186; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:43:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <388E18DD.40FA7A5A@nisser.com> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:42:53 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: editors question #2 References: <20000126085328.B5764@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 03:43:17PM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > > > In Greg Lehey's book, he states that he feels emacs is easier to learn > > and more powerful than VI. Obviously it is more powerful, but does > > anyone think it is also easier to learn? It *seems* to me than it > > is easier to learn one- or two-letter commands than keystroke combinations, > > especially when it takes more than one combination. Like i said, i don't want > > to start a war here, but i am a student and i want to develop solid skills > > with a good, powerful editor. Right now, i'm trying to decide between > > these two. I know emacs is more powerful, but i also know that power > > comes with a price. > vi. It's on all UNIX boxes. emacs. It should be on all UNIX boxes ;). But let's face it, neither of them are really easy to learn. And even worse to remember! I've learned both to a somewhat adequate proficient level, yet now that I could use that knowledge ... OTOH WordStar commands I can still dream. So maybe jstar (joe) is the way to go? Even though it's filecompletion is something I'll *never* get used to. Roelof -- Būter, brea en griene tsiis Hwa dat net ite kin is gjin oprjochte Fries http://omutens.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message