Comments on: Actual Email about emacs and vi https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532206 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:28:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532206 Of course I can operate a web browser!!!! Just type lynx at the command prompt.

]]> By: lylebot https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532205 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:42:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532205 Brian X: I agree completely. Anyone who hasn’t permanently switched to vi after all these years is beyond help.

]]> By: Brian X https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532204 Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:16:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532204 You know, it occurs to me that anyone still fighting the vi vs. Emacs war is living so far in the distant past that I’m surprised they can operate a web browser. I said it in the last thread and I’ll say it again: a (small)pox on both your houses.

]]> By: Nathan Myers https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532203 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:07:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532203 Doug: Editors other than vi exist for the same reason as goats.

]]> By: DouglasG https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532202 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:39:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532202 Wait? There are other editors besides vi? Why would there need to be others?

]]> By: 386sx https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532201 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:42:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532201 Just use viper-mode if emacs seems too complicated for people.

Why would anybody want NERDTree plugin, when they could just use dired or, better yet, Windows explorer?

Did you guys know that Eclipse doesn’t have word-wrapping? True story! They’re workin on it…

]]> By: C. Chu https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532200 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:04:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532200 Emacs is for noobs, and so is vi. Ed is a step up but not by much. Everyone knows that real programmers use cat. Or butterflies, but you can do that with emacs.

http://xkcd.com/378/

]]> By: lylebot https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532199 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:07:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532199 I use vi on my 24″ iMac.

]]> By: Virgil Samms https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532198 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:58:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532198 Are there really people who do not know that there are other (and better) editors in the world besides emacs and vi?

]]> By: me https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532197 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:54:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/03/09/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v/#comment-532197 ed is the standard UNIX editor.

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