Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!lll-winken!uunet!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!tgould!awm From: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Aled Morris) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 89 15:25:03 GMT References: <222@imspw6.UUCP> <79700025@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London Lines: 24 In-reply-to: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 14 Mar 89 20:33:00 GMT In article <79700025@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > Each >time I get a new emacs, I make it emulate the features I'm accustomed >to in the old emacs. This way, I can take advantage of any emacs >without having to learn an entirely new editor. That's my philosophy too, however by the time I've learnt how to program the new Emacs to look like the old, I will have got used to the defaults and won't want to change back! My current editor is GNU Emacs, I like it a lot. It was hard to change from VI (about two years transition), and I still use VI for "quicky" edits (especially on Sun-3/50s), for developing programs, however, GNU can't be beat. I look forward to running an X version on my X terminal (if only...) with multi windows and fonts and...and... Aled Morris systems programmer mail: awm@doc.ic.ac.uk | Department of Computing uucp: ..!ukc!icdoc!awm | Imperial College talk: 01-589-5111x5085 | 180 Queens Gate, London SW7 2BZ