From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 15:23: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0BB414BF9 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:23:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA65062; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:21:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:21:27 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Jerry Dunham Cc: Greg Lehey , Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice In-Reply-To: <200001262222.QAA95197@freeside.fc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jerry Dunham wrote: > Or just as slowly. The learning curve for vi is very painful, and I > understand the curve for Emacs is no better. I use both, and even though I use emacs bindings less (actually I use jed with emacs bindings), I still make more mistakes in vi. For some reason, I don't think I'll ever get used to modes, and I think that is the single part of vi that causes other users problems as well (the rest of the programming team here uses vi exclusively while under unix, and they still make errors too). I don't think that emacs bindings are any easier or harder to remember than vi bindings are, it's just the modes that I trip over. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message