[COFF] editor wars

[Chet Ramey via COFF]

On 7/21/25 11:40 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM Chet Ramey via COFF <coff at tuhs.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/21/25 11:00 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering if maybe us "less smart" people, just don't have the extra
>>> cycles it takes to love emacs?
>>
>> I don't think it's that. I think it's simpler: you put the time in to
>> master something -- or at least become familiar with it. Mastery breeds
>> familiarity breeds comfort. Even if after the fact you try to `spend
>> time' with another tool or editor, you're bucking the already-established
>> comfort level you've obtained.
> 
> I learned emacs first because 'vi' was deemed too heavy-weight for or
> poor VAX 11/750. 

I learned emacs first because I started on TOPS-20 first. Then when I
moved to 4.2 BSD, emacs was there. There was no reason to learn vi then.


> So it's not smart or not. It's what's familiar. 

Exactly. Everyone here is smart.


-- 
``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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