[Wylug-discuss] Favourite FOSS apps and tools?

[Dave Whiteley]

On Friday 22 June 2007 10:57, Chris Brown wrote:
> On 22/06/07, John Hodrien <johnh at comp.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Chris Brown wrote:
> > > Emacs has all this plus a built-in psychotherapist. So there.
> >
> > Am I the only one who just wanted an editor?
>
> So did I. In the early days. That was before the words started talking
> back...

Well,  2d worth,

I have tried hard to persuade undergraduates that (x)emacs is a better editor 
for programming than $soft notepad, and in rare cases have succeeded. 

I do not think that this would have been possible with vi.

Dave

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