From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 30 20:49:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA13036 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:49:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA13016 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:49:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15320 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Oct 1997 03:50:02 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha-092597 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199709302249.RAA02920@argus.tfs.net> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 20:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: jbryant@tfs.net Subject: Re: Good Lord, Commercial Linux Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Jim Bryant; On 30-Sep-97 you wrote: ... > simon, this is where i draw the line... vi is pure unadulterated > evil. EMACS is the only true editor :^] > > Emacs makes the sun shine. > Emacs makes the birds sing. > Emacs makes the grass grow green. > > [just stating fact, not trying to start a holy war] I resisted vi until the late 80's. Used ed, and something tcalled ``the Rand E editor''. Then used vi, then SAM from Plan9 for the longest time. Could not stomach the idea that a text editor consumes 600 times the disk space my first home computer did (Heathkit H8). Trying to adjust to KNF made me, reluctuntly switch to xemacs. Justin gave me some .emacs scripts that (hopefully) make the code presentable. If you know of another (better) whatchamagig to help me, please let me know (Justin claims to be a vi man). --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313