Editor to program in C

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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. ;)
> 
Don't let Nancy Pelosi hear you, she'll want to take it away. Probably citing 
roving urban street gangs rowing through the sewers terrorizing the passers-by. 
Sounds like a scene from the forthcoming 2012 movie "Max Max Beyond Armageddon." 
  ;-)

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