I think it is useful for everyone to learn at least one command-line text editor. Last semester, I was TA for CS 452. One of the projects involved creating PHP pages on a server. I don't know how many people needed help because they couldn't edit files on the server. Those that didn't know emacs or vi were stuck with nano or scping files back and forth after each edit.
I, for one, love emacs. If they were pushing vi in 124 I would be happy as well. At least are learning something more ubiquitous thank kwrite. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phillip Hellewell Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Vim vs. vi (was: [uug] labeling the title bar of an xterm) > > Emacs would be worse, though. I had to use emacs for a class once. > It was a very unpleasant experience, and one that I have no intention > of repeating. I saw that they were telling everyone to use emacs for CS/EE 124 to write their assembly programs. What is the deal with that? Why not let them use any editor they want? Phillip Hellewell ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
