Re: vi or emacs?

notepad?  edit.

Jackman.


On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 12:22:33 -0800, Grishnav <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> >
> 
> That has to be one of the funniest emails I've ever read. I especially
> liked the Vi tutorial in the link. :)
> 
> I don't know. Back when I was still (more of) a noob and was trying to
> figure out which command line editor to use, I tired both Vi and
> emacs. I managed to pick up Vi (Vim later, once I downloaded all
> 12-billion of the tar files) in a few minutes with a little cheat sheet
> that I
> wrote based off the manual, and haven't had any trouble with it since. I
> tried to use emacs, but after spending half an hour just trying to
> figure out how to quit, I finally sacrificed the whole terminal to the
> Gods of the BitBuckets, along with my file. For all of Vi's
> crypticness, I had less trouble grasping it than I did emacs.
> 
> (Sorry if the formatting of this message is all screwed up. Thunderbird
> decided not to wrap text @72chr anymore for some reason,
> even though it still is configured to do so, so I'm wrapping it to the
> size of the window by hand. And it also has randomly chosen different
> fonts throughout, which hopefully won't be transmitted through, but who
> knows... Go team Thunderbird!)
> 
> 
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