As a newb to Emacs, if I were to change one thing about it, it would be
its learning curve.

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 10:57 -0400, Tony Harris wrote:
> Love Vim.  Keep trying to grok emacs because I keep believing with
> that eLisp programming language in there it has got to be super
> powerful, but can't quite get past the Wordstar finger-pretzel key
> combinations.  Nano (formerly pico, I believe, from the people who
> brought you Pine and now Alpine) is great if you have a few lines to
> pop in a really quick change to, but falls out quickly when you need
> lots of editor horsepower.
> 
> There.  I've done it now.  Probably started a holy war over editor
> supremecy and possession of the ultimate Truth! ;-)
> 
> --On Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:49:58 AM -0400 Stanley Brinkerhoff
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > emacs? VIM? anyone hear of the uper better NANO?
> > > warmest regards,
> > >
> > 
> > Nano is like bringing a golf cart to a tractor pull.    I sincerely
> hope you
> > are joking.  If you are not -- have Flint give you an emacs/vi
> tutorial.
> > 
> > Stan
> > 
> 
> 

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