There's a saying among photographers that the best camera is the one you have with you. I think a similar argument can be made for editors -- the best editor is the one you know how to use.
While I am firmly in the vi camp -- the only emacs command I ever really managed to learn was ^X^C -- there are historical reasons for this. I learned Unix on a standalone system (a Sun 2/120 with SunOS 1.1) without any access to the Internet, and vi was the only editor available on a stock install of that system that was worth learning. By the time I had access to emacs a lot of my vi knowledge had kind of moved into my brain stem. While I tried to learn emacs a couple of times, it just seemed like it took forever for the thing to load. I expect with modern computers this is less of a concern, but at the time, for a systems person who had to do small amounts of work on a large number of systems rather than a lot of work on a single system, this was a major issue. Actually, I've always assumed that any applications programmer/systems programmer correlation with emacs/vi preferance stems largely from this one factor (rgb: yes, I know, jove; but sorry, you're in a very small club there). In any event, on top of this I found emacs very alien and disconcerting, so I gave up on it. But none of this means that vi is "better" than emacs, just that it is better for me, because I already know how to use it. I could write a treatise about why I like vi, but none of my arguments would ever be any more compelling to an emacs user any than their affinity for the disaster that is emacs :-) would be to me. --Bob Drzyzgula On 17/02/11 07:14 -0700, Michael H. Frese wrote: > Let the Editor Wars begin! > > > Mike > > At 09:10 AM 2/16/2011, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > >Anyone see this yet? He's pretty dead on, IMHO, especially 5,6,9 > > > > > >http://www.infoworld.com/t/unix/nine-traits-the-veteran-unix-admin-276 > > > >-- > >Prentice > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > >To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > >http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
