that's funny, I have an irrational fear of vi. I'm 100% emacs, but my wife (whom I hope I may bring on the 18th!) is all vi. Should I worry?
Eoin Fitzpatrick -----Original Message----- From: as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj: Re: [UM-LINUX] [Fwd: Re: Distinguished Guest Speaker - Richard Stallman - Wednesday, April 18, 2007] Date: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:06 Size: 1K To: [email protected] > Fair warning, but RMS is a *&@#^4@ nut job :-P > > I saw him talk at a scifi con once, and yes it was for a different > audience then the CS faculty, but he was scary. He went fairly steadily > back and forth between ranting and raving, and finished his "talk" off > by putting on a big purple mumoo and an old disk platter on his head and > talking about the church of Emacs. I understand that this is an act > for the True Believers, but I just found it unsettling. Well, seeing that the bit about the Church of Emacs appears under the "humour" section on his homepage probably means that he doesn't take it too seriously. :-) http://www.stallman.org/ Also see http://www.stallman.org/saint.html > I'm going to be out of the country for this, but if people could post a > debriefing to the list afterwards for all the people like me that can't > be there, that would be awesome. > > - Rob > . > > PS I use vi, so all of the above need to be taken with a grain of salt :-) > So do I. And I'm so clueless with emacs, that I have an irrational fear of it. Aravind.
