[geeks] emacs 21

[William S.]

I have switched back and forth between vi and emacs. For
some reason I end up always falling back on and
depending on vi. I can do the simple stuff on it
and even do things a little more complex. For instance,
I am writing a document now: Composing it with vi
and running it through groff. This document also has
tables so I am using "tbl" to construct the framework
of the table. I recently dl'd siag so I could prepare
a "tab" delimited spreadsheet that will be integrated
into the table.

One of the more challenging elements was figuring out
how to print a page in landscape mode. I ended up
using 'tbl file.txt | groff -P-l -ms -Tps > file.ps' to
do that. The final document will be in PDF format.
I know some would say it would be alot easier to do this
with "word" and "excel" but I like it this way.

Bill
Amsterdam, NL

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 10:55:55AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> ... but why run emacs, to emulate vi, when I already have vi?
> 
> (no, I'm not starting a flame war; I'm trying to think of a reason why I
>  should use emacs-with-vi mode instead of just vi/vim).
> 
> At one of my previous jobs, I was the ONLY vi user; everyone else was
> emacs... I actually had to ask once, "okay, how do I save and exit?" 8-0