On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 12:05, Troy Walker wrote: > 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.
Agreed. I think the point is probably to get the students to use a standard unix text editor, and emacs happens to be just a little more intuitive for the average person than vi (people will dispute, but which other program that calls itself a text editor doesn't allow you to start typing text immediately upon opening it. vi is the only I've seen. Plus, emacs does have some rudimentary drop down menus like most are used to). Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
