Hi tom, > just remember that we had even the holy > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war
Sure, I know about the Emacs vs vi war. I tried Emacs more than vi, because I found Org mode very interesting for managing my notes and such stuff. It's only few years ago, but I can't remember any of Emacs' keystrokes. But I still remember vi's ":q!" or ":wq" command. (Not to start the war again here:) If I had to decide between the two, _I_ would go with vi now. Background: Very often, I'm not on my own machine and I'm not allowed to install another text editor or just run a portable version. So I stick to standard Windows Notepad. On my own machines I run Notepad2e. > how would we be able to indoctrinate newbies into one single editor > religion? Why should we? > I think even newbies should be given the chance to select from > > > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-edit.html > > and multiple other sources to change their own religion? Sure. Where did I say anything else? > disclaimer: I'm probably no expert in DOS editors (anymore). _I_ never was. ;-) I used many and all had their pros and cons. That's how life is. > of course, if as a hobby you want to have a feel for 1980 XT developement > pain you > should use edlin. > > ok, nobody used edlin ever. but professional editors could be > pricey... > > but still nobody used edlin. ever. I would prefer debug's "e" command for that. ;-) Cheers, Robert -- BTTR Software https://www.bttr-software.de/ DOS ain't dead https://www.bttr-software.de/forum/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
