[SlugLUG] running vi

[Thomas Leavitt]

I've never been able to get my head around emacs either.

Thomas

Erich Blume wrote:
> 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."
>
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