Re: vi or emacs?

Grishnav 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. :)
> 

hahh =)  Thanks, that site is funny.

> 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!)
> 

If you typed it in emacs, you would be fine =P.

I did the same thing with emacs that you did w/ vi(le) and it worked nicely.

Incidentally: Ctrl-C + Ctrl-X

js

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