{"id":26116,"date":"2009-03-09T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T12:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/03\/09\/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T12:30:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T12:30:34","slug":"actual-email-about-emacs-and-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/09\/actual-email-about-emacs-and-v\/","title":{"rendered":"Actual Email about emacs and vi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe&#8230;.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSubject: Re: The UNIX-Haters&#8217; Handbook? (was Re: Who are the most obnoxious computer groupies?)<br \/>\n&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Crosby wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In article ,<br \/>\n  Loren Petrich wrote:<br \/>\n  ><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    In my experience, vi is the absolute worst full-screen<br \/>\n    (character-mode GUI) text editor I have <em>ever<\/em> used.<br \/>\n    [ and so on in the anti-vi mode &#8230; ]\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  vi has the fastest, most efficient keybindings around.<br \/>\n  [ and so on in the pro-vi mode &#8230; ]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Harley Hahn&#8217;s book <em>Unix Unbound<\/em> (which I recommend, BTW,<br \/>\nto anyone learning Unix) has chapters on vi and emacs. The<br \/>\nvi chapter contains the following paragraph:<\/p>\n<p>HINT: If you are learning vi and you become temporarily<br \/>\ndiscouraged, take a break and try a little emacs. emacs<br \/>\nwill seem so complex and impossible that you will feel a<br \/>\nlot better about using vi.<\/p>\n<p>While the emacs chapter contains this one:<\/p>\n<p>HINT: If you are learning emacs and you become temporarily<br \/>\ndiscouraged, take a break and try a little vi. vi<br \/>\nwill seem so complex and impossible that you will feel a<br \/>\nlot better about using emacs.<\/p>\n<p>Says it all really, doesn&#8217;t it? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/linuxshellaccount.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/sunday-unix-and-linux-humor-vi-emacs.html\">Totally stolen from The Linux and Unix Menagerie<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[415,3353],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Ne","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}