Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 11:24:07 +0100 From: Michael Elbel <Michael.Elbel@consol.de> To: "Damon M. Conway" <damon@chiba.3jane.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmers' editor? Message-ID: <19991125112407.B21871@consol.de>
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In lists.freebsd.questions you write: > Greg Lehey wrote: >>On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at 21:18:22 +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: >>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>> >>>> Oh yes, and you should try Emacs >>Have you? >i have...it's big, slow, overkill, and annoying. >that's just my opinion, i could be wrong. :) You wouldnt' have been wrong 10 years ago when the acronym "eight megabytes and constantly swapping" or EMACS still was funny. Since then programs have become so big that little ol' emacs simply doesn't count as big any more: $ top [...] PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 21890 me 18 0 31352K 14520K opause 0:56 4.74% 4.74% jre_X 495 me 2 0 31300K 25476K select 7:36 0.00% 0.00% XF86_SVGA 20491 me 2 0 29672K 22624K select 2:11 0.00% 0.00% communicator-4 20492 me 2 0 16440K 8884K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% communicator-4 17798 me 2 0 11476K 6896K RUN 11:24 0.00% 0.00% xmms 322 mysql 2 0 11308K 1324K poll 0:01 0.00% 0.00% mysqld 21861 me 2 0 10620K 8844K select 0:06 0.00% 0.00% xemacs-21.1.7 17796 me 10 0 7184K 6728K wait 0:02 0.00% 0.00% nn And everybody who has problems (like me) to get used to the editing paradigma and preferes it the vi style should try out viper, 'nuff said. Michael -- \|/ -O- Michael Elbel, ConSol* GmbH, - me@consol.de - 089 / 45841-256 /|\ Fermentation fault (coors dumped) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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