[Wylug-discuss] Favourite FOSS apps and tools?

[Mark P. Conmy]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> 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.

How about with Gvim?

Mark