Ah, the flame wars of old (Was: Re: Editor to program in C)

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sat Apr 11 22:03:13 UTC 2009


Sharpe, Sam J wrote:
> 2009/4/4 David L. Gehrt <dlg at inanity.net>:
>> <snip>
>>>> lol, what does emacs/vim war have to do with gnome/kde?
>>> ----
>>> nothing actually except for the useless banter that accompanies each
>>> war.
>> <snip>
> <snip>
>> Be sides every body KNOWS Emacs rules!!! :-)
> 
> Yeah, right. If I wanted a text editor that could also read mail and
> make a nice cup of tea.
> 
And the nice thing is you don't need to be able to type, because every possible 
keystroke does {something} for/to you. Anything from point out off-by-one errors 
to perform a sex change on your gerbil.

>> Get over it guys.  There is work that needs doing.
> 
> It's the weekend - what better time to have the emacs/vim discussion?
> 
> Oh wait - I use vi because it's the lowest common denominator, but
> really I wish I had nano - where's that in the battle?
> 


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