Bjorn Borud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > | > | http://www.debian-administration.org/polls/89 > > this is hardly surprising. I use both editors. for most sysadmin > tasks I use vi(m). for programming i use Emacs. > > in part out of old habit (most UNIX systems had vi installed) and > partly because vi(m) is faster (which makes it more suitable when you > just need to change a couple of lines in a file).
The idea is to start Emacs once and use it for everything. > so if the context was system administration, I'd vote for vi as > well. if the context was programming I'd vote Emacs. You know you can use something like C-x C-f /su::/etc/fstab RET (or /sudo::/etc/fstab) in order to edit files as root in a normal Emacs session? -- David Kastrup -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
