On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Adam Maas wrote:
> Actually it's just ingrained muscle memory, years of having to use vi
> while maintaining services on Unix machines means that the basic editing
> commands are pretty much automatic. vi is ideal for that use, it's
> lightweight and everything has it.
>
> I still :wq on a regular basis in just about every other editor/word
> processor.
>
> If you want punishment, use emacs. All the weight of Word, none of the
> Eye Candy.
>
The way I think of it is that emacs is so configurable in so many
ways, that it's impossible to configure it at all. Besides, Lisp has a
dribbling lisp of parenthesis...
Vi is evil, and I often wish I'd had to learn it. :)
-Cory
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