Quoth Michael P. Soulier, > I tried Emacs for about 6 months, pouring through O'Reilly's book and > learning it well. I hated the arthritic keybindings, but I managed because I > liked a lot of the features. I tolerated the pigginess of it because I thought > such poor performance was necessary. Then the broken Perl modes moved my code > incorrectly yet again, and I killed the thing and went back to vanilla Vi, > where it did what I told it to do. Then I found Vim. > > Eight > Megs > And > Constantly > Swapping > > ;-) While I'm trying not to buy into Yet Another Editor Holywar, my favourite EMACS backronym (found in some file that comes with the EMACS distribution, I believe) is: Generally Not Used, Except by Middle- Aged Computer Scientists Disclaimer: I use emacs for heavy duty stuff (eg., my thesis in LaTeX), and Vim for everything else... cheers, damon -- Damon Muller | Did a large procession wave their torches Criminologist/Linux Geek | As my head fell in the basket, http://killfilter.com | And was everybody dancing on the casket... PGP (GnuPG): A136E829 | - TBMG, "Dead"
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