Re: editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-17 Thread Richard Lyons
On Saturday 17 January 2004 03:12, Carl Fink wrote: [...] They're both partial knockoffs of WordStar, [...] One of the things I love about this list is these attacks of nostalgia... Wordstar... and giving up 8 floppies for those miniature 5 1/4 ones... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-16 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-16, Pigeon penned: I hate both of 'em. If all I've got is the standard tools, I use ed. I find it *much* less painful than using vi. Or emacs. Seriously. What's your preferred choice? I'm just now reading the chapter comparing editors (A Tale of Five Editors) in ESR's new book,

Re: editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-16 Thread Matt Perry
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: What's your preferred choice? I use both vim and XEmacs daily. Been using vi/vim for 7+ years and XEmacs for the last 14 months or so. There was some annoyance for about four or five weeks as I'd use vi commands in emacs and emacs commands in

Re: editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-16 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:21:09PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-01-16, Pigeon penned: I hate both of 'em. If all I've got is the standard tools, I use ed. I find it *much* less painful than using vi. Or emacs. Seriously. What's your preferred choice? My first exposure to a

Re: editors (was: Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian)

2004-01-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:33:18AM +, Pigeon wrote: My first exposure to a full-screen editor other than vi or emacs was the Borland Turbo C 1.0 IDE. It wasn't modal, and the cursor keys worked. It was more or less love at first keystroke. (For those who haven't come across it: DOS's