On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:32:02 -0900 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But really I have always felt trapped in these discussions. I don't Me too!! > believe there is really enough common ground to compare them. emacs > is easier to get started with thanks to the tutorial built in, and vi > is easier to master. emacs is at the same time a desktop, a shell, a > scripting host, and a basically crash-proof word processor (Yep I was > around when computers worked with 64K memory and MINCE+SCRIBBLE / > Final Word II/Borland's SPRINT was a going enterprise and crashes were > frequent, and that bound me closer to emacs, cause I always forgot to > save on WordStar). Hell Civileme that dates us :-)) remember Wordmaster too?? Wordstar!! Now that's still my fallback for massaging large text files. I still find it amazing that a 64k executable with overlays could handle 16mb even in the cp/m days!! It's also the only editor (sic) I found which could move text in columnar mode. Mind you I've never had to try this since returning to *nix. > Besides, I have an affection for wheat on dark slate gray that always > looks green to me... :-) Yeah but that's to do with snow-blindnes isn't :-)) John (nz)
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