On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 20:53, Andy Sy wrote: > Sacha Chua wrote: > > > - Emacs could probably be used as a glorified typewriter, but nano, > > joe, and jed are probably easier to use for that purpose. vim has > > funkier syntax highlighting built in. So why use Emacs at all? I > > like the way Emacs fits itself to me. <grin> I'm crazy enough to > > want that. > > > (I can talk about non-Emacs stuff if people are getting freaked out, > > but I do hope you'll forgive me. It's the environment I do most of my > > OSS development on and for. =) ) > > Is there a film documentary available somewhere showing you how you > use Emacs? God knows I've tried and tried to get the hang of it and > still find myself heavily disliking Emacs. > The finger-numbing keyboard shortcuts, eh? :D It actually becomes more productive in the long run though, rather than bringing up the mouse or resorting to piping a set of commands for the really esoteric operations.
I kinda remember an interview with Gosling that some senior Sun programmers still do prefer emacs for the really serious work. Apparently it's due to emacs' tight integration with the compiler and toolchain. [incidentally, that's also the only time i'd resort to using emacs - due to tighter integration of the editor to the toolchain. Scite comes a bit close though.] > I want to visually experience someone else using Emacs to see if it's > really more efficient to do things like mail, news, web browsing > (??!? how do you do that without graphics?) in it. > Well, during the heydays of the well-endowed virtual terminal (the MIT people primarily :D), Emacs was a savior - since you could already run anything you need for a VT, why would you bother leaving it? :) Then again - it's for the well-endowed virtual terminal - not really for those stuck with very limited resources (like a very slow modem link, very limited disk space and memory) in the early days. --
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