[geeks] vi vs. emacs - rational discussion

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 01:11:31AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> > Why (if any reasons), should I consider learning Emacs?
> 
> One of the really neat things I like about Emacs is the easy access to a
> lisp interpreter.  Don't want to learn lisp?  Just use it for simple

I used to kill time between classes by working on writing a symbolic
and numeric math system in elisp.  It was very fun, plus it was useful
for some of my homework (and probably part of the reason I did poorly on
math examines).