[Sussex] Vi?

[Geoff Teale]

Tony, 

What you are asking for is a very long list.

I will instead point you in the following directions..

Firstly read the overview here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

Then I suggest a browse around:
http://www.emacswiki.org

..or for less reading see here (BTW this site includes scientific proof
that emacs is the ultimate text editor):
http://www.dina.dk/~abraham/religion/


-- 
Geoff 

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 07:54, Tony Austin wrote:
> Geoff
> 
> > Emacs is, as everyone has been saying a bigger investment in terms on
> > memory, load time etc, however if you're doing any serious text editing
> > it is so much more powerful than vi that it is unbelievable.
> >
> 
> Apart from the things that you have said about Emacs, the only thing that
> I "know" about it is that it uses the same help system as info, which I
> find impossible to use - I once tried to make the effort but by the time I
> needed it again I had forgotten everything.  Now, I found that very
> tedious when man was so easy to use!  Fortunately I discovered pinfo for
> the occasions when I have to read an info file.
> 
> But I digress ...
> 
> The real purpose of this message is to ask if you could give us a list of
> the "unbelievable" "powerful" features of Emacs that would tempt a
> reluctant and reasonably satisfied vi user to consider making the
> investment in learning something that he/she thinks they don't really
> need.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Tony Austin
> Gigaday Computing Limited
> http://www.gigaday.com
> tony at gigaday.com
> 
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Geoff Teale
Cmed Technology