For my editing work I also use joe, not emacs :-) But the built-in Lisp interpreter of emacs allows to do mighty things...
This brings up a funny story from when I first started as chief webmaster. There's several files on fencepost (there used to be *lots* of files, including on the FTP server, but alas no longer) that have to be modifed, and not having been told that RCS logging was being done through Emacs (with permissions adjustments), I would roll happily through the changes with nvi, and then get tons of nasty emails asking for me to adjust permissions back, and *please* use Emacs. I've used solely the old fashioned (and Berkeley) vi for so long (7 years?) that when I get into another word processor I automatically hit ESC even as I remind myself that I'm not in vi. It gets to a point where you can do everything 3 times as fast in vi than elsewhere. However, after having configured some systems for the University of Utah (during the Olympics) for some of the math geeks, I realized how popular Emacs is, and how insane one has to be to learn vi at first. But when it comes to computing, I'm often told I'm a masochist. I'm an OpenBSD user after all... ...plus, I love plain TeX and ditroff, too. _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
