begin quoting James G. Sack (jim) as of Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 12:50:38PM -0800: > Well, I didn't know this.. > > When you open an archive (zip or tgz .. maybe others?), vim shows a list > of files in the archive and opens what you pick. > > Neat! > > OK, before anyone has the chance to inform me, I tried emacs, and it has > a similar thing. Also neat!
All editors grow until they become emacs clones. . . > Man, they're going to have to start teaching editors in 3rd grade, to > adequately prepare sophomore hackers. The goal isn't to learn all the editor can do, it's to use the editor to get what you really want to do done with the least pain possible. (Unless you really get excited by what your editor can do that you don't need -- then more power to you.) This is probably why I'm a vi guy instead of an emacs guy. :) -- I find it disquieting that ELIZA is in my editor Her advice isn't that bad, which is a credit to her. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
