[COFF] editor wars

[Will Senn]

I love lisp, but emacs, not so much. I do a lot of different operating systems and I found vi to be much more consistent, but I’m not knocking emacs, just not my cup  of tea.

Will
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> On Jul 21, 2025, at 9:15 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey at case.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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