On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:40:07PM -0500, Owen Ford wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 18:15, Marius Mauch wrote: > > On 07/21/03 Brian Budge wrote: > > > > > Is there anything about nedit that is better than emacs or vim other > > > than the quicker learning time? > > > > Don't know vim, but it's a LOT faster than emacs and does not carry an > > additional operating system with it :-P > > You misunderstand... > > *nix is just a bootloader for emacs.
Great OS, shame it has no decent editor though... ;) Actually, I started with emacs back in the days. I used it for /everything/. Reading news, mail, editing, shell, ad nauseum. I once tried to replace my login shell with emacs, but as I didn't have root on university machines, I couldn't add it in /etc/shells. But a few years ago, I noticed that my wrists started to hurt from trying to bend the hand typing 'Ctrl-A' all the time. Replacing CapsLock with Ctrl eased the pain, but it was still a bit of a hassle to type 'Ctrl-X + Ctrl-S'. So after seeing a coworker editing in vim I decided to try it out, and after learning all the strange commands (really, few of them are obvious) and also learning more about what the vim editor can do for you more than just 'a<type text><esc>', I've never looked back at emacs again. But then, I'm the type of guy who like to work through the console instead of GUIs. :) //H, not trolling. Really. -- To segfault is human; to bluescreen moronic. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
