Re: [Sheflug] vi, emacs, sharp sticks

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> >The whole vi -v- Emacs thing is daft, it's simply horses for courses, if
> >you want power and can remember dozens of archaic character sequences go
> >for vi, if you want user friendliness go for Emacs [joe, jed...]
> >
> >Course, there's always gedit, kedit, xcoral too - The choice for a
> >Notepad Generation ;)

Nedit!! Nedit!!!
(/me jumps up and down ;)

>  I agree that arguing with anyone over vi or emacs (or whatever) is
pointless.
> A  few chaps on the list can handle vi (I'm going to start using it) and I
> started with Emacs way back when.

The vi tutorial is *very* good. It's made for (ansi) sized screens, and
there's a lesson on each page. Quickly gets you into it. Can't remember
whether it's a vi thing or a vim thing, though. But you want to be using vim
anyway - vi's kind of, well, crap, compared to vim ;))

Cheers,

Alex.

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