Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caen!b-tech!ais.org!jph From: jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars! Keywords: editor Message-ID: Date: 26 Jan 91 21:54:42 GMT References: <1991Jan25.000005.23489@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> <737@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Sender: jph@ais.org Organization: UMCC, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 43 In article t22918@iti.org (Matt Ranney ) writes: Hi, Matt. >dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes: > >I agree, GnuEmacs rules. That's what I use on my Unix account, and I use one >of those millions of beta versions that are floating around. My only complaint >is that I don't have a jillion megs of ram to use up with an editor. If I >wanted a word processor, I'd load up Excellence. I just want something that >edits source code, and uses the same commands that I'm used to on the Unix. > I like CygnusEd Pro, and then GNU-Emacs under X, AZ, and GNU-Emacs over the modem. My main complain with AZ is it has no internal language. >>The control/x stuff was sent down from God. Now it's hard-coded into my >>fingers. I wouldn't learn vi on a bet. > >The commands from any editor would seem to be sent from God once you get >used to them. Its just a matter of what you want to learn. Emacs at least >has "windows", and lets you use the cursor keys without having to enter >"command mode". > GNU-Emacs has "windows"? Bullshit. It has real windows if you use it under X-Windows. >I will say one good thing for vi, after I learned that, the keys didn't change >for Nethack, but I still only use it when I have to. vi sucks on Saddam Hussein. >-- >Matt Ranney >t22918@ursa.calvin.edu > -- // Joseph Hillenburg, Secretary, Bloomington Amiga Users Group \X/ joseph@valnet.UUCP jph@irie.ais.org jph@ai.mit.edu "Only Apple could slow down a 68030 chip" --Computer Shopper