Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread FemmeFatale
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 18:58, Todd Slater wrote: > In ROX, right-click the file, Set run action, and type the name (or full > path if the app isn't in your path) of the program you want to use. I use > gedit for quick edits in gui. You can also drag and drop the executable to > if you prefer. > > T

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread Todd Slater
On 10 Feb 2003 18:14:39 -0700 FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:36, Robert Wideman wrote: > > >> OK... so whats the real diff between those 2 editors & which > > >> one is more > > >> newb friendly? If neither is newbie friendly, well name > > >> somethin

RE: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread FemmeFatale
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:36, Robert Wideman wrote: > >> OK... so whats the real diff between those 2 editors & which > >> one is more > >> newb friendly? If neither is newbie friendly, well name > >> something that > >> is and is more or less standard on most *nix's. > > > How ab

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread Mark Weaver
Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: On Tue 2003-02-04 at 21:21:06 -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [... cool overview about available editors ...] If I am on a desktop and I need a quick edit, I usually grab for kedit, but any heavy work is emacs unless it is a sudoers file in which case a special variant

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread Mark Weaver
civileme wrote: On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:46 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Anders Lind wrote: OK I just read some stuff about VI & Emacs. Now I'm not one for super complex editors of text. Having said that I realize it behooves me (Correct context for "behooves?" & sp!?) to learn one or the o

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-10 Thread John Rye
On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 20:32:02 -0900 civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But really I have always felt trapped in these discussions. I don't Me too!! > believe there is really enough common ground to compare them. emacs > is easier to get started with thanks to the tutorial built in, and vi >

Re: [newbie] Vi vs Emacs... Not a flamewar!!! Any flames will beignored

2003-02-05 Thread robin
Jan Wilson wrote: * FemmeFatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030205 01:27]: [snip] edit files on any system. I realized a while back those 2 editors are standard to Any *nix environment. I believe that emacs is not always installed, even though it is probably available for almost all OSes and