On 4/20/10 12:16 PM, Timothy Wood wrote: > I've rediscovered an interesting phenomenon. After a long math test, > my mind is nearly incapable of learning complicated new things. So > I've been unable to make any constructive headway with vim or emacs > today (I had a math test earlier this morning). > >
That's alright. When it comes to one of these unending - ahem - "discussions" like this, many (most?) of us have given up long ago, and just picked one and gone with it. It's not exactly life-and-death. In case you haven't figured this out by now, for some reason Unix people like to argue about things. This one has just been vi vs emacs, which is one of the big ones. Then there's the distribution wars (Ubuntu vs. Fedora vs. RedHat vs. Debian vs. Slackware vs. Gentoo, etc), or the desktop wars (Gnome vs. KDE vs. FVWM vs. Enlightenment. Any EvilWM users still out there?), or the programming language wars (C vs. C++ vs. Java vs. Perl vs. Python vs. Lisp vs. Forth vs. Fortran). Most of the time, I just shrug my shoulders and choose whatever tool works for me and the situation. I think you'll find that, while vocal, the people involved in these long email threads, are still a minority. They just seem to enjoy arguing. [1] Sorry for the rush of perspective, guys. I know I'm spoiling your fun. I'll shut up now. :-) Lloyd [1] http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080206 -- Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
