I use nano most of the time, but it's quicker to use vi[m] for duplicating lines, and I'm comfortable in both. There are times your fav wont be available, so know and love them all. :)
Sent from my iPhone On May 13, 2011, at 3:56 PM, "William L. Thomson Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 15:42 -0400, John Patterson wrote: >> i >> >> Emacs is a great operating system, it just needs a decent text editor to >> round it all out. > > Just need to port nano to be an extension for emacs.... > > All pun aside, speaking of emacs, not to long ago we were talking about > using IDE's vs text editors for coding. The Wikipedia page on emacs > talks about using it as an IDE[1]. If you check out the editor war > page[2] on Wikipedia, in section regarding current state of the war[3]. > It mentions that many advanced programmers use either Emacs, vi or other > offshoots, which includes Linus Torvalds. > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs#Extensibility > 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war > 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war#Current_state_of_the_editor_war > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
