[Gllug] [O/T] Grr... new keyboard

[Peter Corlett]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:38:45PM +0000, Harry Rickards wrote:
[...]
> I don't want to turn this into a flame war, but if it takes too long to
> start up emacs, maybe you could use a quicker, smaller editor such as vi
> or vim?

Because start-up time is rarely the sole criterion when picking an editor.

The only reason I consider using vi is if Emacs isn't installed, or the
system is sufficiently knackered that it won't start up in a sensible
timeframe. (That is, when start-up time *is* the sole criterion.)

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