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: 27 Jan 91 03:43:23 GMT References: Sender: jph@ais.org Organization: UMCC, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 40 Matt Raney writes this on comp.sys.amiga.advocacy (The !!! FLAME !!! group) MR>used to them. Its just a matter of what you want to learn. Emacs at least MR>has "windows", and lets you use the cursor keys without having to enter MR>"command mode". Me>GNU-Emacs has "windows"? Bullshit. It has real windows if you use it under Me>X-Windows. MR>Well, it's got more of a window than our friend, vi. That was the reason I MR>put it in quotes. The only time I really use them is for compilation and MR>correcting errors. Under X-Windows, are they all resizable? _That_ would be MR>pretty cool. Yes, the windows are resizable, and pulldown menus, looks like your average Amiga-tized editor, except it's as slow as the postal service. (Well, not quite :) MR>[...] MR> One of these types, my friend, was MR>reading this over my shoulder and gave this defense of his editor: MR>"Emacs is for kids who want to program in Pascal and have 40 character MR>variable names with lots of capitals in them. Vi is faster and more powerful MR>without all this 'control-x' stuff. Why cant emacs use single key commands?" Because Emacs has any command you need. Try sticking all the Emacs capabilites into vi and try to keep single-key commands in... MR>To each his own, I guess. MR>-- MR>Matt Ranney MR>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