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

[Matthew King]

Rich Walker <rw at shadowrobot.com> writes:

> general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
>> For productivity stuff like programming, where I might want macros and
>> regex and ftp I would never use a terminal app, not while I'm sitting at
>> a box clicking away 3000 million times a second, what on earth would be
>> the point? On a side note, I've just decided I'm going to call the next
>> machine I build chocohammer ;)
>
> I use nano an embarrassing amount, because I'm always forgetting to 
> forward X on my ssh connections, so I can't use emacs.

Really? When did emacs drop its link to curses?

[Yes. I know. That I should have to indicate that I know on an English
mailing list irks me.]

Matthew

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