From: "m" <maximilianbianco(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, 2009/April/05 15:00
On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 11:52:20PM +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 4/5/09, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
> > Andras Simon wrote:
> >> There may be reasons for not liking vi or emacs, but their being
> >> useless is certainly not one of them.
> >
> > They're useless compared to editors which you can just start to use
> > with no
> > learning curve.
>
> Is this how you approach all tools, or only editors?
>
> Not to mention that using emacs as a simple text editor requires no
> learning whatsoever. If you can use a menu, know what "open",
"save",
> "exit" and "help" means, "you can just start to use"
it. Yes, there's
> a lot to learn about emacs, but you don't have to write emacs
> extensions from day one.
>
> I'm not a vi user, but I'm pretty sure this holds for at least the
> X-ified versions of vi, too.
>
> Andras
>
I love that you don't need a mouse in emacs.
You certainly don't need a mouse in Vim, either. But real hairy chested
programmers use echo >foo.c so get with it.
{O,o}