On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Moshe Zadka wrote:
>elongate. If you want to play the piano, EMACS is a great
>excercise. (Escape-Meta-Alt-Control-Shift isn't just an
>acronym).
Now I understand why I like so much emacs, before to see Linux (two years
ago) I was used to pass all my spare time playing my guitar and all
kind of instruments ;-).
>> vi and (X)Emacs are (almost) at opposite ends of the scale. vi is
>> basically just a text editor. Emacs includes a lisp interpreterand a
>
>Er....emacs *is* a lisp interpreter. It's just that someone chose
>to write an editor in it. I prefer editors written in 'C'.
Emacs is written in C and only the modes are programmed in lisp. If you
use normal mode lisp interaction is pratically null.
>> vast number of add-on packages, including both dumb and
>> curses-compatible terminal emulators, mail and news packages, web
>> browser, transparent FTP support, version control, file manager,
>> calendar, calculator, lisp debugger, lots of online help,some games,
>> ... even a vi emulation mode.
>
>Yes, we all know EMACS is a pretty good OS. The question is,
XEMACS is a pretty good OS. Emacs is very more modular. I have not the web
browser lisp module installed for example.
>Let me just state for the protocol that I write (C code and
>LaTeX code) exclusively in vim, and I found it to be extremely
vim has a lot of feature missing. Sure using vim is more simple or also
equally useful if you don' t know very well emacs triks.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
