Xref: utzoo comp.editors:2893 comp.unix.misc:1256 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!isis!rwelch From: rwelch@isis.cs.du.edu (Randy S. Welch) Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: If you could have anything in vi ... Message-ID: Date: 5 Apr 91 04:20:06 GMT References: <1991Mar20.203643.26406@convex.com> <1991Mar25.043842.20287@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1991Mar28.040120.23524@swsrv1.uucp> <1991Apr04.193344.16407@convex.com> Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account) Organization: Public Access Unix - Univ. of Denver, Math Dept. Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM's message of 4 Apr 91 19:33:44 GMT In article <1991Apr04.193344.16407@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes: why the devil should an editor compile, read mail, or read news? I find being able to compile from the editor quite nice, if you have a problem you can go right to it without having to remember what !@#!%! line(s) you had a problem with. It's a good enough concept for MS-DOS (:-O) compiler companies to use... ( editor wars are bad enough, OS ones..) emacs is just a visual shell. And I don't think you'll find too many arguments about that. I think that Len Tower said once that you can think of emacs as a windowing system for character based terminals. I'll stick with my emacs :-) -randy -- Randy Welch Mail to : ...!ncar!scicom!bldr!randy or rwelch@du.edu Boulder, CO rwelch@nyx.cs.du.edu or (303) 442-6717 "Unfortunately, life contains an unavoidable element of unpredictability" -David Lynch "The Angriest Dog in the World"