[COFF] editor wars

[Chet Ramey via COFF]

On 7/21/25 10:12 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 09:59:54AM -0400, Chet Ramey via COFF wrote:
>> On 7/20/25 9:52 AM, Will Senn wrote:
>>
>>> As a vi guy, I cannot even understand emac's appeal. I've tried countless
>>> times, even going emacs only for a while... when I went back to vi, it was
>>> like old shoes, very comfortable.
>>
>> Because familiarity is very powerful. Lots of people mistake it for
>> intuitiveness.
> 
> So many smart people I know love emacs.  I forced myself to live in it
> for a year, not the emacs vi mode stuff, just straigth emacs.
> 
> I never got to the point that I liked it.  I think it's the lisp aspect,
> if you don't love lisp, I don't think you'll love emacs.

I think it depends. You have to have a passing familiarity with lisp to
really take advantage of GNU emacs, but there are plenty of emacs-like
editors out there (I maintain one, based on microemacs from way back)
that have emacs-style key bindings and similar functionality.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet at case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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