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


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