--M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> I think it is useful for everyone to learn at least one command-line > text editor. Last semester, I was TA for CS 452. One of the projects > involved creating PHP pages on a server. I don't know how many people > needed help because they couldn't edit files on the server. Those that > didn't know emacs or vi were stuck with nano or scping files back and > forth after each edit. I agree, it's ridiculous. A programmer that doesn't have enough passion for his editor (whatever it be) to at least find one that's useful is really missing out. And once you've edited a file in said editor over ssh you know there's no substitute. If I were taking CS/EE 124 I would lobby heavily with the professor to allow me to use vim, but that aside I am looking forward to the day when the majority of CS students at BYU use a real editor. It's hard to swallow, but I'll say it: emacs is a real editor. --=20 Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460 --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ePeS/JjozeCq1GARAqSaAJkBrA6B1i/HWOd90QEly0olI+tBpQCfWMgK 7I3QVWwcsixsQ56Ss1L13pQ= =ZPFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO-- ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
