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

Sean McGowan scepticanagramwonk@verizon.net
Thu Sep 24 07:34:47 EDT 2009


I did the same thing, as I would love to see this in eclipse.
http://www.viplugin.com/viplugin/index.php/viplugin
 However, it is not free.


On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 11:02 -0400, William Sutton wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Bryan J  Smith           Professional, Technical Annoyance
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> > controlled distribution channels of forced bundle and lock
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