On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:01:06AM +0100, Stefano Calza wrote: > > Well, I've entered the thread right now, but I wonder why nobody talked > about emacs. I think it's simply great for everything. If you have to > learn "one" editor, emacs is the right choice (sounds like a commercial, > doesn't it ;-)
I tried Emacs for about 6 months, pouring through O'Reilly's book and
learning it well. I hated the arthritic keybindings, but I managed because I
liked a lot of the features. I tolerated the pigginess of it because I thought
such poor performance was necessary. Then the broken Perl modes moved my code
incorrectly yet again, and I killed the thing and went back to vanilla Vi,
where it did what I told it to do. Then I found Vim.
Eight
Megs
And
Constantly
Swapping
;-)
I hate the split between Emacs and XEmacs, 'cause the configuration files
aren't compatible. At least it's easy to find on Unix systems though, unless
it's a bare install. And I'll admit, I miss ang-ftp. That's a cool feature.
Anyway, if you work on a variety of systems, I would listen to this
gentleman or me, and go with (X)Emacs or Vim, 'cause you'll find them
available for everwhere you go, and they're both very powerful.
Mike
--
Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"...the word HACK is used as a verb to indicate a massive amount
of nerd-like effort." -Harley Hahn, A Student's Guide to UNIX
PGP Public Key: http://www.storm.ca/~msoulier/personal.html
pgpL1YX3eVlby.pgp
Description: PGP signature
