begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 08:27:42AM -0700: > Wade Curry wrote: [snip] > >It's hard to go from one editor to the other just because there is > >already a large investment in, and comfort with, the one that is > >already known. Obviously. But I think what really keeps me from > >getting emacs is the impatience at being reduced to the > >functionality of Notepad all over again, The motivation to > >continue is already gone because that hurdle has already been > >faced.
Given a choice between Notepad and emacs, I'd go to emacs. :) > Agreed. I'm an emacs user because emacs was far more functional than vi > when I learned emacs (1988). Nothing about vi has enough pull for me to > overcome the time I have already sunk. By the time I tried vi in 1992, I'd been playing rogue and roguelikes heavily for five years. The hjkl movement keys were muscle-memory by then. -- Games really are great training for the use of computers. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
