Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!uunet!fernwood!oracle!news From: nhess@gumby.us.oracle.com (Nate Hess) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: vi for power users Message-ID: <1990Dec12.180424.24476@oracle.com> Date: 12 Dec 90 18:04:24 GMT References: <109909@convex.convex.com> <110110@convex.convex.com> <17719@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Sender: news@oracle.com Reply-To: nhess@gumby.us.oracle.com (Nate Hess) Followup-To: alt.religion.computers Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA Lines: 25 In article <17719@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> you write: >Emacs may be seductive to a new user, but after you get used to it, >you'll find that holding those evil control-chars down slows down your >typing enormously. Start-up time and resource hogging are two more reasons >to avoid that monster. This from a vi user who uses C-f to go forward a screenful, C-b to go back, C-d to go down half a screen, C-u to go up half a screenful... When you're typing, you don't need to use the control keys, in either vi or emacs. Start-up time of emacs is higher than vi; however, typical use of emacs doesn't involve starting it up and quitting out of it several hundred times a day, as typical use of vi does. As far as resource hogging, that is a specious argument, at best; emacs allows one to do more than vi does, so of course it will use more resources. You're conveniently not counting the time for all the fmt's, etc., you're calling from vi as part of vi's resource usage. Happy Editing! --woodstock -- "What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking...and suddenly you wake up." - Hobbes nhess@us.oracle.com or ...!uunet!oracle!nhess or (415) 506-2650