[Sussex] Straw Poll

[Geoff Teale]

Steve wrote:
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> why?  (and please publish the results as now I want to know too
> but I don't know why).

I plan to publish the result once people have stopped posting answers - I'm
not looking for difinitive usage stats, just wanted to get a rough idea. 

Really this is routed in the fact that I have had the opportunity (being in
my last days here) to spend some serious time in Emacs (something I haven't
been able to do for an age) and I was just recalling what a truely wonderful
program it is (I use GNU Emacs as oppossed to XEmacs).  I was actually
feeling vaguely emotional about the experience and the prospect of it
becoming my main interface to the world in a couple of weeks time.  I was
just wondering how people feel about these things and why they choose to use
an editor.

I imagine that as a programmer you build up a deeper relationship with your
text editor than you average sys-admin.

I was expecting the following results:

Coders would mainly use emacs
Sys-admins would mostly use vi

... whether that holds true or not remains to be seen. 

vi seems to hold a lot of kudos considering that it is fundementally akward
to use.  

-- 
GJT
Free Software, Free Society. 
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