On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 09:17:07AM -0600, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> vi is is lean, mean and goes anywhere in a small amount of space. It's
> standard on almost every Unix I know of and there are perl modes for it as
> well. It's not fancy but unless you are working with monster files for
> days at a time, emacs is a bit over the top.
It would be if you were to start a new emacs for every file you wished to
edit, but nobody I know of does that. Even emacs diehards would consider
that to be pretty insane.
My current emacs session has 40 buffers open, and has been running since
mid-December. (Although I was away for a few weeks.) 40 buffers is in the
low range of what's fairly typical for me.
To quickly edit a config file, many emacs fans use jed.
> If you had a choice between a
> Volkswagen Beetle and a Crown Vic and chose the Beetle
Using emacs doesn't cause more pollution than vi. ;)
mike
