On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 5:30 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > "Baby Duck Syndrome": you bond to the first one. Any time you are tempted > to switch, everything that any other one does differently is "just all > wrong". If you are eventually compelled to switch, you will bond to a new > one; and every other one "just does it all wrong". > > 'course, then there are the MAJOR religious battles. Such as VI VS EMACS.
I started on 8-bitters. On minis, I first encountered EDT (on VMS), then Emacs (on UNIX, AmigaDOS, and even VMS), then years later when I was working for Lucent/Bell Labs, vi... I'm all kinds of messed up, but mostly I use vi(m) these days. It's not perfect (oh, buy, it's not perfect!) but I can have the same experience going from platform to platform to platform. That's worth it. -ethan