I was an emacs guy. Learned vi in about 1980, but when I worked for cadmus I learned gosling emacs. Used it for all my development until I switched to atom
-- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 4:55 PM John Abreau <[email protected]> wrote: > Similarly for me with vi. I've been using vi since my first UNIX system in > 1983, a PDP-11/34a running BSD Unix 2.8. > > I absolutely *hate* vim. When I install a new Linux system, one of the > first add-ons I install is nvi, which is not a reimplementation like vim, > but rather is derived from the BSD code base that I grew up with. > > When I use vim for anything non-trivial, I almost always run into cases > where some functionality that my fingers know turns out to be missing, and > cases where some bizarre mode that my fingers don't know about gets invoked > inadvertently and I have no clue what it is or how to exit from it. > > When I use nvi, neither of those frustrating annoyances occur. > > > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 4:23 PM Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 9/19/19 11:13 AM, Bill Horne wrote: > > > RMS has left us the FSF, the GNU organization, and Emacs (which I use > > > every day): we owe him a lot, both as a society and as a group, and I > > > hope we can keep in mind the immense weight of his achievements on the > > > balance of his life. > > > > I use emacs whenever I use my computer. In a sense I hate emacs, but it > > is what my fingers know. > > > > -kb > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > > -- > John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix > Email: [email protected] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID > 0x920063C6 > PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
