[nzlug] [Wildly OT] Cross Platform editors (Was: Network Admin position at Zeald.com)

Jonathon Sim sim at zeald.com
Fri Aug 4 09:42:58 NZST 2006


Vik Olliver wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 23:17 +1200, Warren Boyd wrote:
>   
>> Emacs I did try a number of years ago ... and I still awake  
>> screaming ...
>>     
>
> Waddya mean? Emacs is a great operating system. Fortunately it also has
> a decent editor. vi.
>
>   
As an emacs user you get so used to the keybindings that you cant use 
any other applications anymore anyway.  So you have to use the little 
text editor that emacs has built-in (a bit like notepad.exe I guess)

( NB: you can actually type "alt-x vi-mode" )

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