[ale] notepad

[Matthew Brown]

Most of the people that I've met that use emacs are generally a very bad
sort of person.  Sometimes one sees them on the sides of the road or
wandering around in pastures, looking for meaning and purpose.

But, hey, that's just me!

8-)


 On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 15:57, jeff hubbs wrote:
> Swantje Willms wrote:
> 
> > Well, emacs is there 99.9% of the time as well, works great through
> > telnet and has a great GUI interface as well if desired, and from the few
> > things I know about vi, I find emacs much nicer and more intuitive :-)
> 
> There was a time when I HAD to use vi and, with a printed-out tutorial 
> in my hand, I was able to do what I needed to do, cursing it all the 
> while and thinking, who could possibly make use of such a thing?  Yet, 
> I've seen people just fly in vi, so it would be wrong to diss it for 
> being awkward when some people seem to have made it second nature.
> 
> VAX EDT was the first text editor I used heavily, and emacs is more like 
> EDT, so I gravitate toward emacs in text mode.  I use kedit in X.
> 
> I'm just a-fannin' those flames o' war!
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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