[geeks] Re: [rescue] RE: Small schools.& elections

[Martin Wedel]

For me it's the fact that I can find vi on pretty much any flavor of *NIX.
:)

/Martin Wedel
sun at minor-element.net
www.minor-element.net

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> Since we are discussing religion and politics, I've moved this to geeks.
>
> In this day and age of monstrous amounts of CPU cylces going unused, isn't
> it time to use a text editor that pretends to have a brain?
>
> For instance, in the two emacs (I don't believe in keeping only one copy
> of emacs open) that I have open now, one of them is managing the white
> space in some python scripts (python was meant to be edited with a smart
> editor, I kid you not), and provides a class browser.
>
> The other is opened to a C++ project.  It takes me to build errors, does
> syntax highlighting, and highlights the current code in the GDB.
>
> I'm sure you've heard these things before.  I understand prefering vi's
> keysequences to emacs chords, but what makes people prefer such a lack of
> features?
>
>
>
> --
> Joshua Boyd
>
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Amy wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> >
> > > So, what do you use for text processor Amy?
> >
> > vi.
> >
> > --a
> >
> >
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