terse editor

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:24:07 -0500
David Kramer <david at thekramers.net> wrote:

> There are lots of people who prefer vi, and call emacs "an operating
system 
> that can edit files".  Some admins will refuse to install emacs
because it 
> takes up so much memory.
I ran into this once. The CTO of the company absolutely would not allow
emacs, which I find silly in these days. 
Given that I have used emacs for 20 years...
Emacs is language sensitive in that it has modes that set up automatic
formatting, parent a curly brace matching and a few other things. You
can compile, execute and debug from within emacs. One of the very strong
points is it extensibility. 

But, vi is the one editor that you can expect to find in virtually every
Unix and Linux system. Vi is also very powerful, but many people don't
know its features. 



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