Editor to program in C
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Apr 29 02:41:24 UTC 2009
On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:34:09PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>> Emacs is my editor of choice, and I disagree it has a learning curve.
>> ...
>> <snip>
>> vi on the other hand ;)
>
>Aw, crud. I've dealt with this stupid war for 28 years.
>
>And just to throw gas on the fire--so I'm not pacifist, sue me--I still
>think Emacs is overblown for an editor. A comment I made about Emacs
>about '82 or so on Usenet was, "If I wanted an operating system, I'd
>get one. Emacs has everything except the kitchen sink."
>
>And someone pointed out the icon for Emacs was...well, guess.
Naw, couldn't be. Say it isn't so... :)
Does vim have an icon? I've never seen it if it does, but I don't use
anything else enough to remember the syntax.
>Another valid comment about Emacs back then: "Put your coffee cup on
>the keyboard and roll it around; it will hit keys that all do
>*something*." (Problem was, probably nothing you wanted.)
>
>Hey, strokes for folks--the great thing about Unix/Linux was summed up
>in another quote from those long-ago days:
>
> Unix doesn't just let you shoot yourself in the foot. It asks you
> what caliber you want.
And I usually chose the 4 ga punt gun. Its so heavy the only thing I could
hit is the floor cuz I could get it propped up on my foot. ;)
>Cheers,
>--
> Dave "No fancy quote; I'm tired. Where's my martini?" Ihnat
> dihnat at dminet.com
--
Cheers, Gene
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