With Emacs and Stallman it went way way past "delusions of grandeur"....When I want a lifestyle, I'll get a lifestyle, but when I want an editor, I want an editor rather that something with delusions of grandeur.Its sad that "some folks" hold a glorified line editor that requires flipping between editing and other modes to do anything as superior to the one true creation editor that has significant aspirations to be an OS, but that just my observation.... Emacs, its not an editor, its a lifestyle.
Do those offended I apologize. And as I mentioned, I tend to use the right tool for the job. Back in my Unix days, I spent way more time inside emacs than at a command prompt. Now I often use vi for quick edits. Do much less serious coding these days and spend more time in gedit for minor stuff, or LibreOffice for pretty document writing and dealing with Microsoft Word docs. However, the vi/emacs camps of olden time were very divided, with great amounts of passion on both sides.
I would also agree that everyone who interacts with Linux systems at a command line should know how to do the basics with vi since it is almost guaranteed to be available.
Statistics: Posted by bjtheone — Fri Nov 22, 2024 1:34 pm