On Tuesday 04 February 2003 10:23 pm, civileme wrote: > On Tuesday 04 February 2003 08:54 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: > > OK I just read some stuff about VI & Emacs. Now I'm not one for super > > complex editors of text. Having said that I realize it behooves me > > (Correct context for "behooves?" & sp!?) to learn one or the other so I > > can edit files on any system. I realized a while back those 2 editors > > are standard to Any *nix environment. > > > > OK... so whats the real diff between those 2 editors & which one is more > > newb friendly? If neither is newbie friendly, well name something that > > is and is more or less standard on most *nix's. For the moment I'm > > leaning to Emacs b/c it is modeless & ergo less of a headache/more > > intuitive. > > > > ------------- > > FemmeFatale > > Not a flame--just something I saw in a sig... > > "Daddy why do we have to hide from the police?" > > "Because we use emacs, son. They use vi." > > > Civileme
I used emacs for a long time. It is so big and slow that it can do your washing for you if you let it. I am a system on chip engineer and when I design or verify multi-million gate chips some of the files become so big that emacs just almost "grinds to a halt" and you stay waiting forever for the screen to update every time you did anything. And that is on powerful 64 bit SUN machines with multi cpu and 16G bytes of RAM. emacs was impractical for that. I had to look for an alternate editor. I tried VIM which is a superset of the VI editor and is free. I found it to be exceedingly fast and powerfull. It probably could do anything emacs does and maybe more. I swallowed my pride and converted my relegion and I never looked back. Seedkum
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