[Gllug] ed vs emacs/vi, was: ed vs emacs, was: OpenMoko Neo Freerunner

[Caroline Ford]

2009/5/12 Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at workshy.org>:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 02:44:47PM -0400, general_email wrote:
>> to stare the beast in the face *shudder*. Even if I somehow got all of
>> my clients over to using linux desktops though I can't conceive of a
>> situation where I would have to resort to vi or vim or emacs or ed or
>> any of those clunky old editors.
>
> They aren't clunky; they may not look as pretty as your favourite
> WYSISWYG editors but they tend to be more powerful, more featureful and
> more extensible.  Editors designed for the GUI tend to have fewer
> genuinely useful features and more frippery.
>
> --
> Bruce

We discussed this very thread over vodka this evening, fancy that!

Caroline
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