On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> On Saturday, Oct 30 1999, 03:16, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> >
> > THINK TWICE AND THRICE BEFORE STEPPING INTO THE INFINITE LOOP OF EMACS
> > AND VIM, or they will eat you up alive or send you straight to a mental
> > asylum.
> > Use a simple text editor such as mcedit, pico, joe, the default KDE text
> > editor and so on.
> > If you decide later that you want to learn programming, you can then
> > move up to Emacs or Vim. But not until then.
>
> Hi Ben,
> i think Vi/Vim is as simple as any editor you mentioned above
> but Vim has more feature like cut/copy-paste, split-window for
> multiple file editing and colors.
> i write this letter with Mutt and Vim as the editor (i choose Mutt
> becouse it can handle multiple email account, and able to running from
> console).
>
I would also like to say that emacs is an extremely powerful editor, very
extensible, and it has gotten much easier to use over the years. It is worth
spending 20 minutes to learn the basics, and then one can learn the additional
features as one neds them. It has a great tutorial built right into the start
up screen.
I prefer vanilla vi to vim. But that is a personal thing.
Jungney
