Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri November 11 2005 3:38 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> Vi was an achievement in its time, but its design was dictated by
> the terminals available when it was written.  My argument against vi
> now is that terminal technology has advanced enormously and has made
> editing modes possible that weren't practicable when vi was written.
but VI is still a powerful tool, so is emacs. I can do things in VI 
that would take hours in a graphical editor, or at least many more 
menu item selections.

>
> > I admit I pray to RMS every day and I am an EMACSIAN.
>
> I'm an emacsian too (or an Emacsian, to use RMS's preferred
> capitalization).   I still find the Emacs directory mode the easiest
> way to do most file operations, even under KDE.   And my desktop
> includes a "root emacs" icon for running Emacs with root privileges.
and I use VI from the ALT-F1 text-mode login screen, when I need to do 
something as root... to each his/her own :)
I don't need a desktop icon to run VI, just a Konsole/terminal window, 
which I normally have 1 or 2 of minimized.
-- 
Paul Cartwright
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