22 Feb
2013
22 Feb
'13
9:47 a.m.
On 02/21/2013 03:38 PM, Brett McCoy wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Len Ovens
<len(a)ovenwerks.net> wrote:
I think I frighten people at work because I *still* use emacs for all
of my editing tasks...
Both vi and emacs are powerful pieces of software. They are *not*
designed to be user friendly to anyone else. (Anymore than Wordstar was
in it's day.)
Being hard to learn doesn't make something an "expert" piece of software
- unless you're talking about a *field* that requires lots of expertise
such as rocket science. Text editing isn't rocket science. A text editor
shouldn't be as hard to learn as rocket science. ;-)
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David
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dwm has
both idiosyncrasies and a learning curve, but so too do most
"expert" pieces of software. vim and emacs are the canonical examples,
I never did get anywhere with those two. Ed and Vi mostly, though I think
I have forgotten most of it. I found joe and used it ever after... it's
still my main CLI text ed.