On 6/30/05, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/30/05, Israel Dacanay Canasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i remember when i first used emacs, I didn't know how to quit, so i just > > logged in through another tty and killed all my processes. bwahaha. Until > > now i don't use it. I like joe. tyaga lng at interest.... i want to know emacs and vi. now im used to vi.. but i also want to learn emacs, non-modal editor..
> > Emacs was my first editor on Linux for a different reason: when Jijo > lent me his Redhat 6.2 CDs some years ago, Emacs was the nearest > available to a modeless text editor, and the default install didn't > include any other text editor at the GNOME panel (as the menu entry > was Text Editors->Emacs). I didn't know then the keystrokes (just used > icons at the menu bar, then tried experimenting with the save command > Ctrl-x Ctrl-s). Sure was easier to grasp compared to vi (as I really > didn't know about vi being a modal editor). It took me quite some time > to get accustomed to vi (which was made worse with my first try of > Debian defaulting to nvi). > > -- > Paolo Alexis Falcone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
