Bob Drzyzgula wrote: > 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. fwiw some people still *really* care about emacs performance even on modern hw. We (PathScale) have a few vocal users and plan to spin some cycles to speed it up a bit. (If you're interested to help test/give feedback ping me off list.)
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