Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:13:19 -0500 From: Dutch Collins <dutch@charm.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, James A Wilde <james.wilde@telia.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <383C46DF.AEC101A5@charm.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9911231240360.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <00e101bf3681$44cb04a0$8c0aa8c0@hk.tbv.se> <19991124103253.B2554@orion.ac.hmc.edu> <19991124135521.44585@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Wednesday, 24 November 1999 at 10:32:53 -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 02:39:01PM +0100, James A Wilde wrote: > > > >> And I don't really think vi is crap. It's just that the only thing > >> less intuitive in its natural state than vi is probably emacs. <ducks > >> and moves out of the war zone> <grin>. > > > > You aren't going to get any argument from me there. ;-) > > OK, I've said my piece here, and I disagree entirely. But it's not up > to me; I've been using Emacs and similar editors for 20 years. The > real question is: what do newbies think? Anybody want to comment? > Also, Brooks, have you *used* Emacs? Recently? If so, I'd like to > know what you consider non-intuitive. > > > Actually, if you're going to spend much time in UNIX, you should at > > least have basic proficiency with vi since it's always there and > > emacs may not be. > > There I agree entirely. I do use vi for exactly this reason. > > Greg > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > Just emacs for me. man vi every time for me when I get stuck without emacs or pico. However, ee is handy when debuggin' a kernel config that went stray. You know, ee 'the config file' while in single user mode. That was not a real good example but that is what ee is for. I may be wrong? -d --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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