On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Dave Ihnat wrote: >On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:34:09PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote: >> Emacs is my editor of choice, and I disagree it has a learning curve. >> ... >> <snip> >> vi on the other hand ;) > >Aw, crud. I've dealt with this stupid war for 28 years. > >And just to throw gas on the fire--so I'm not pacifist, sue me--I still >think Emacs is overblown for an editor. A comment I made about Emacs >about '82 or so on Usenet was, "If I wanted an operating system, I'd >get one. Emacs has everything except the kitchen sink." > >And someone pointed out the icon for Emacs was...well, guess. Naw, couldn't be. Say it isn't so... :) Does vim have an icon? I've never seen it if it does, but I don't use anything else enough to remember the syntax. >Another valid comment about Emacs back then: "Put your coffee cup on >the keyboard and roll it around; it will hit keys that all do >*something*." (Problem was, probably nothing you wanted.) > >Hey, strokes for folks--the great thing about Unix/Linux was summed up >in another quote from those long-ago days: > > Unix doesn't just let you shoot yourself in the foot. It asks you > what caliber you want. And I usually chose the 4 ga punt gun. Its so heavy the only thing I could hit is the floor cuz I could get it propped up on my foot. ;) >Cheers, >-- > Dave "No fancy quote; I'm tired. Where's my martini?" Ihnat > dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) error: one bad user found in front of screen -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
