Adrian von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 January 2006 03:44, Miles Bader wrote: >> Juergen Salk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > According to their package descriptions, we seem to have exactly >> > six powerful text editors in Debian. These are elvis, jove, >> > mined, ne, nedit and zed. Emacs, vim and many others do not >> > belong to them. Does that mean these are less powerful than the >> > powerful ones? >> >> You're right in general, but there actually seems to be a fairly >> distinct divide in editors, between "simple editors for newbs" and >> "not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors" > > So vim is in the simple, for newbies class?
No, there's actually three classes: "Simple editors for newbies", "not-so-simple but, er, powerful editors", and "religions". HTH, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
