[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)

[Tethys]

Benedikt Heinen writes:

>Interesting - how does the availability of a good macro system settle the 
>editor wars debate once and for all (in favour of vi), if other editors 
>have equally powerful macro systems and "better" user interfaces?

It settles the debate in that no editor can claim to be more powerful
than vi. As powerful, perhaps, but not more so. Of course, it would be
fairly easy to write a turing machine in emacs lisp, so the same logic
would apply there too.

Tet
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