David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Keith Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [...] >>>> What is Emacs? >>> >>> Pretty much the most-used general-purpose editor under Unix-like >>> operating systems. >>> >>>> C'mon, dak. Only (fine nines) retarded fanatics like your comrade >>>> ams use that torturous editor. >>> >>> Care to mention an editor on Unix-like systems that would be used more >>> often? >> [...] >> >> Possibly vi and its derivatives. > > Things that are _called_ vi, you mean.
No, I meant "vi and its derivatives", and I meant to include vim as a "derivative" of vi. My use of the term "derivatives" was fairly informal; if you don't consider vim to be a "derivative" of vi, I'll accept that. (I certainly didn't intend to refer to the question of what is or is not a "derived work".) >> I have no idea whether vi or emacs is used more often, it doesn't >> matter to me one way or the other, and it's not particularly >> relevant to this discussion, but it's at least plausible that vi is >> used more than emacs. (Personally, I use both. No, really.) > > More likely something like vim and Emacs. Not so many people actually > use vi nowadays. I use vim on some systems, nvi on others; the latter is a direct descendant of the original vi. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst> San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst> We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
