[SC.LUG] [vi vs emacs] die modal apps [was Re: Bill Gates to be Knighted?]

[Richard Smedley]

John Southern wrote:

>It is an Iyonix not a Lyonix machine - so the address is http://www.iyonix.com
>Cheapest is also £1249 and not the expensive model at £1399
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or GBP1299 with CDRW and free 19in monitor.

It looks interesting, but I think mini-ITX offers the
best price/performance/size/power consumption
trade off at the moment :)

>Emacs is still wrong! 20MB just to edit a six line config file.
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Ah, but it's worth every single byte, not to be
stuck in the wrong mode ;-)
- and there's always ed ;-P
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html


 - Richard