On Sunday, 27 May 2012 16:40 Dwayne Henderson wrote: > Emacs excels at things like bidirectional communications with co-operating > processes, which is good for embedding things in (or marrying things to) > the editor, like a shell, a REPL or a debugger. You need any of that, > Afrotrap? > > Vim has a better text editing interface - period. As for Vi - we all know > it sucks - but this never was about Vi. > > --Dwayne >
I've always had trouble egtting past a certain part(?) of some things. For instance, I aced math all the way through geometry and then 15 years later while trying to go to community college I did it again until I got to calculus and physics...it was like being in a nice '65 GTO doing about 120 mph and suddenly a 10 foot thick block wall pops up in front of you with no braking room. I stuck with the courses for another week but it did no good as I just kept getting farther and farther lost. I've tried to learn (online and with books, can't afford school anymore since I live on a disability check) programming in C++ for Linux, Python and Ruby. I'd give my right cod to learn to program and especially to try it with a machine language because I'm so sick and tired of the bloat languages are causing anymore, but again I get lost pretty quickly and frustrated. It's similar with other things but I never know what particular subject/job/whatever-I-should-call-it it will happen with until I start at it. I also have a kinda messed up memory, so, when I did take a curious look at Vi and emacs a few years ago, it took all of about an hour +/- on each just piddling around to know I would be lost using them. So, I mainly stick with gui stuff and once in a while ask how to get a little thing done. Oh well....life in the woods, heh. JB -- Man is a religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion...several of them. -Mark Twain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
