[SlugLUG] running vi

[Erich Blume]

On 9/30/06 12:03 PM, "karly at kipshouse.org" <karly at kipshouse.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 08:59:05AM -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
>> Hehe - 
>> 
>> Discussing editors, as you know, is like discussing religion or politics
>> in the 'wrong' place!
>> 
>> 
>> (I made this the start of a new thread).
>> 
>> :)
>> 
>> Peter
> 
> I learned vi in 1995, and I've been trying to learn emacs since
> 1996, but my fingers won't let me.

Same exact thing here! I love vi to death - I mean I honestly think I would
struggle to breathe without it - but I can probably chalk that all up to
having Mackey for 12B. If I hadn't, it's pretty likely I would have learned
emacs, since that's what most of my friends (of the *nix sort) use.

But now that I've learned vi, I've tried numerous times to learn emacs
simply in order to be able to say I can use either. It's never worked. I can
never even hold in my head how to save and quit. I remember once I tried
feverishly to learn emacs because I saw someone using the buffer selector
with great efficiency - good for web pages. Then I learned vim has the same
feature with largely the same commands (which I gather is because vim more
or less ripped it from emacs).

> My emacs zealot friend says vi has two modes.  Beeping mode and
> mangling text mode.
> 
> -karl
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And now, since this flame war has been largely too polite, I'll put in my
two cents. And this, by the way, should be familiar to veterans, but could
provide some chuckles or indignant grunts from our new guys.

"Emacs is a great operating system, but it lacks a good text editor."