[ale] editors, was ... Re: Job listing

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 10:38:29 EST 2009


But google fight is a skewed data set. It is raw listing count of
appearances on google. That would suggest the googlefight winner may
actually be a bigger problem.

I rest my case on this:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=linux&word2=windows


2009/2/5 Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>:
> Huh. That was short. (
> http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=nano&word2=pico   )
>
> -- CHS
> (Yes, I'm an emacs user..)
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <GONG!!> Both are OT posts. The flame war is nano-vs-pico
>>
>> who uses what and why or why not
>>
>> those luser vi-vs-emacs dweebs are so 1990's...
>>
>> Or how about:
>> mutt vs pine
>> epiphany vs konqueror
>> fvwm vs twm
>> puppy linux vs tiny sofa
>> pulseaudio vs arts
>> c-cell vs d-cell batteries
>> tastes great vs less filling
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
>> > ...so long as it is vim rather than nvi.
>> >
>> > Emacs is an anagram of maces so I predict we'll shortly be clubbed by
>> > those who are still silly enough to believe emacs is a good editor.  :p
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>> > Geoffrey
>> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:57 AM
>> > To: ale at ale.org
>> > Subject: [ale] editors, was ... Re: Job listing
>> >
>> > Jim Kinney wrote:
>> >
>> >> I now return you to your latest nano-vs-pico editor war.
>> >
>> > Why bother?  vi is all anyone needs...
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Until later, Geoffrey
>> >
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