On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:12:45PM -0700, Miguel A Paraz wrote: > I used to love emacs. But now I'm convinced it's an "editor for smart people" > (like Sacha!), in the vein of "languages for smart people" (e.g. LISP) vs > "languages for the masses" (Java, Python...)
Funny, a large contingent of the Linux/Unix community sees Emacs *and* vi as being for smart people, with Joe, pico, and other such editors being for everybody else. > Now I use 'vi' for plain editing and together with mutt, for email. I used > to work with emacs for coding, but now that I'm a Java boy, I use eclipse. Mutt seems to fall into the same category as vi and Emacs. I love it, but I wouldn't try to get my mom to use it. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
