[rescue] Re:EMACS
Patrick Giagnocavo
rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 27 11:33:35 CDT 2001
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 04:05:10PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> >
> > I think that if most people actually focussed on what they wanted to do
> > then they wouldn't like office as well, although they might like emacs
> > just fine. Office trys to distract you with unneed features while not
> > allowing to just get work done.
>
> Office has a Paperclip; Emacs has Eliezer; Nuff sed.
Main feature of emacs that I actually USE vs. vi: ability to cut and paste
between buffers/ files.
Do this in vi: open 10 different files, cut text from one of them, then
switch to another file and paste the text there. Ugh - a real finger
twister, IIRC.
Ob Sun: once the company I worked for paid big bucks to Digex for a SS1+ or
SS2 (probably one of Dave's) that hosted the web site and email. They
didn't have anything other than vi installed and I had to cut and paste and
change a bunch of HTML pages. Blecch.
Vi is useful in many cases; not always though.
./patrick
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