Does Vim count? Or are you looking for a debate vs pure Vi?
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 11:17:50AM -0500, John Demme wrote: > Due to some scheduling confusion, this month's meeting has been rescheduled > to next week, April 6th at 7pm in CSIC 1121 > > Next week's meeting, however, will be the text editor flame war. We'll be > having religious fanatics from the Emacs camp, the Kate consortium, and the > vi guys are invited as well, if they volunteer. > > Debate format: Each team will have time to do an opening demo of their > editor, followed by challenges from each team to the others. After this, > each team will be allowed a closing demo. This debate will be largly demo > based. If you can't show it, it doesn't count! > > So far, we have people representing Emacs and Kate. The Emacs representer, > however, is myself and I'd rather moderate. So, I'm looking for people to > argue for vi and emacs (and more people are allowed on the kate team.) > Although I'm prepared to argue for Emacs, I'm not an emacs wizard, so if > you're an Emacs wizard, come and support Emacs. > > I'm also looking for a KVM switch to use, if anyone can volunteer one. > > This should be interesting. If it goes well, we'll do a programming > languages flame war in the future. > > I'm also looking for people to help advertise this event. Email me if you > can spare some time. > > ~John Demme
