[Novalug] vi vs. emacs was Re: OT List?

William Sutton william@trilug.org
Wed Sep 23 11:02:54 EDT 2009


To finally interject some signal into this thread,

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=eclipse+vi+mode&aq=f&aqi=g1&oq=&fp=43553c8e63bc4d0d

William Sutton

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>
>
> I enjoy this about as much as distro-pissing.
>
> I learned UNIX text editing on Emacs '89-'91, but I found that
> minimal, statically linked Vi is what I ended up using and knowing
> the most because it is in almost every platform booted into
> single user and other recovery modes.  It also minimizes a great
> number of issues when sending meta over troublesome terminal
> connections.
>
> Most of those details are removed today, but it's just one reason
> why Vi works well.  Frankly, I've been in and out of Eclipse more
> than anything lately, so all this is moot.  I'd love to have Vi bindings
> though, like I do in my shell.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3@Comcast.NET>
> To: jerry w <jerrywone@gmail.com>
> Cc: NOVALUG <novalug@calypso2.tux.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 6:33:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] vi vs. emacs was Re:  OT List?
>
> Methinks thou speakest with tonue in cheek, but...
>
> No, RMS created the FSF.
>
> And remember that ESC x is the same as Meta X, and we've got those keys
> on our keyboards now, even in the Linux Text Terminals.
>
> Bill Joy created that Abomination CSH. And NFS.
>
> Looking back, I think that WNJ was actually more of a good force than a
> bad one, and that I may be unfairly harping on his weakest contributions.
>
> He's a Good Guy. And VI is a Good Editor. It's just not as Powerful and
> Elegant as emacs is. And WNJ isn't the programmer that RMS is.
>
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