On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 22:41 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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. ;) > And how many others here have ever even seen a punt gun? Was yours a muzzle loader or a breech loader? I shot one a long time ago. It was in a Jon Boat, with the pole support mounted in a hole in the front seat. Now that was true swampbilly technology. A whole flock of ducks or geese in one shot! Kinda like emacs. Regards, Les H -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
