On 14 June 2017 at 23:50, Alan Feuerbacher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/14/2017 12:05 PM, Richard Melville wrote: > >> >> I was always a vim user, but I've been using emacs for about a year and I >> really like it. ... >> >> As I say, in the past I've always been a vim user. I avoided emacs >> because it always seemed as though it was trying to be all things to all >> people. It never seemed quite unix enough: one tool to do one job. >> However, I started using it last year in earnest and I'm impressed with the >> power of it (particularly the number of additional modules). I'm probably >> unusual in that I always have both vim and emacs installed and use them >> both. I know that there are a few lightweight editors out there, but >> because I'm used to vim I tend to use it for quick edits to files and >> reserve emacs for large projects. >> > > I almost always use vim, partly because I'm used to it and partly because > I can edit stuff quite a bit faster than with emacs. Emacs needs more > keystrokes to do the same job, often enough that I've found it annoying. > Also, on my job I sometimes found that the "ed" or "ex" component of "vi" > was needed, and keeping up with vi kept me up with the "ex" commands. These > are largely the same as from the ancient "ed" editor from lineprinter days. > > When I was a student at MIT from 1979 onward, I worked part time at the AI > Lab (Artificial Intelligence), where Richard Stallman had worked for > several years after dropping his CS program. He had become a fixture there, > and wrote the first version of Emacs in an old editor (Teco?) that had > impossible syntax. Emacs became the de facto editor for the AI Lab and ran > on old DEC machines. Eventually a grad student named Bernie Greenberg > ported Emacs to Lisp, and eventually others ported versions to Unix. Emacs > has so many features and abilities that some people do all their computer > work from it -- programming, whatever. Stallman, of course, went on to > found the GNU organization and the Free Software Foundation. That's an interesting piece of history. I assumed that emacs was written in lisp from the beginning. Richard
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