[Sussex] Vi?

[Geoff Teale]

Tony,

If you already now vi and are happy with it then I wouldn't expect
anyone to change.

I would encourage people without such affiliation to learn emacs if they
plan to do serious amounts of work in a text environment.  So if you're
a programmer new to Linux or a wannabe programmer Emacs is the place to
be.

All religious wars aside, learning a powerful text editor, like vi or
emacs is a useful tool to any one doing something non-trivial with a
computer.

-- 
Geoff

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 12:22, Tony Austin wrote:
> Geoff
> 
> > OK ok.. ;)
> >
> > It's not easy to convince someone how great emacs is until they've tried
> > using it for more than just simple text editing, but here goes:
> >
> 
> Thanks for all  that, I appreciate the time you spent putting the list
> together.  So much, in fact, that I have saved your email in my "Linux
> reference folder" to look at again "when I get a minute".  I can see that
> Emacs could be a toolset that could be useful to someone who is hacking
> all day, but I doubt if the learning curve can be justified on it's
> editing merits alone (vi does several of the editing functions you
> mentioned reasonably well), although it may well be a more powerful editor
> as well once one is up to speed.  It's a case of "getting on with the job
> with what you know".
> 
> >From my perspective, Emacs is something I would like to take a look at
> "when I get a minute" - perhaps ideal on a laptop when on hols :-), but I
> don't have a laptop at present or time for hols either.  :-(
> 
> > --
> > Geoff Teale
> > Cmed Technology
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Tony Austin
> Gigaday Computing Limited
> http://www.gigaday.com
> tony at gigaday.com
> 
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Geoff Teale
Cmed Technology