Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!t22918 From: t22918@iti.org (Matt Ranney ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars! Keywords: editor Message-ID: Date: 27 Jan 91 01:24:42 GMT References: <1991Jan25.000005.23489@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> <737@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Organization: The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Lines: 30 jph@ais.org (Joseph Hillenburg) writes: >>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. Well, it's got more of a window than our friend, vi. That was the reason I put it in quotes. The only time I really use them is for compilation and correcting errors. Under X-Windows, are they all resizable? _That_ would be pretty cool. I've decided that there is a certain breed of people that like to use vi, around this campus, anyway. These are the people that have IBMs, and wouldn't trade that nifty command line interface for anything. They like to get into nitty gritty system details even though there are already preset routines that do that for them. One of these types, my friend, was reading this over my shoulder and gave this defense of his editor: "Emacs is for kids who want to program in Pascal and have 40 character variable names with lots of capitals in them. Vi is faster and more powerful without all this 'control-x' stuff. Why can't emacs use single key commands?" To each his own, I guess. -- Matt Ranney t22918@ursa.calvin.edu