On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 11:00:23AM -0800, Kayla Block wrote:
> >Michael A. Stone writes:
> > I also recommend learning the vi basics, since vi is the editor
> >you can count on being on pretty much every Unix system.
>
> Unless you're in a jam because you're on a system without emacs, I think
> emacs is more intuitive to learn than vi.
No commercial Unix system ships with Emacs.
All commercial Unix systems ship with vi.
This is why I require everyone who does admin work for me to be
proficient in vi (and its alter-ego, ex, for those times when a
full-screen editor can't be used).
Furthermore, I recommend against Emacs because (a) it's a resource hog
(b) it is THE canonical example of creeping featurism and (c) I have
observed, over more than a decade, that people who live inside Emacs
tend to never learn the ways to accomplish the same tasks using native
Unix functionality and as a consequence, are hamstrung when they're
forced into a situation where Emacs isn't available.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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