Rebecca:

You're not trying to restart the emacs vs. vi war are you?

:^)

Honestly, for me, Emacs wants to do too much. I just want a powerful text
editor, not a text editor/email client/web browser/news client/etc.

But Emacs is no doubt a great tool, judging by its user base.

- Jeff

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Jeff Rankin	jrankin(at)jeffr.net

http://www.jeffr.net/

Be Valid To Be Cool
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Rebecca J. Walter wrote:

> EMACS is usable without as steep a learning curve (none of that esc-i to
> insert stuff i always forget with vi), is available for windoze and NT,
> can be set to autoview in your browser every time you save.  (i hit
> cntrl-x s and then it saves and opens the browser and reloads) it color
> codes the code and has the functions for macros and things like that but
> i have never used them.  i hand code entering ALL tags manually but make
> templates sometimes i work from that already ahve the DTD and stuff. 
> emacs also has modes for programming, email, ftp, etc but i only use the
> HTML, plain text, and SGML modes myself..
> 
> 
> "W. Jeffrey Rankin" wrote:
> > 
> > Hi:
> > 
> > VIM is a terrific tool that I use for 95% of my development. It's a
> > consistent environment that I can use whether I'm on NT, Solaris,
> > etc. Keep in mind, however, that it does have a steep learning curve. This
> > learning curve is well worth it, as editors like VIM typically have
> > regular expressions, macros,  and other tools that can  automate a good
> > deal of your coding.
> > 
> > http://www.vim.org/
> > 
> > - Jeff
> > 
> > ===================================================
> > Jeff Rankin     jrankin(at)jeffr.net
> > 
> > http://www.jeffr.net/
> > 
> > Be Valid To Be Cool
> > ===================================================
> > 
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Ron Hall wrote:
> > >
> > > > VI serves me just fine, though if I'm stuck in the M$-world notepad works
> > > > just fine.
> > >
> > > You (and possibly other VI fans on this list) might be interested in knowing
> > > that there's a free (as in "free speech" ;-) version of VIM available for NT
> > > on the net. Try http://www.vim.org/dist.html
> > >
> > > Perhaps you already knew this. Anyway, HTH :-).
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Harshdeep Singh Jawanda.
> > >
> > >
> 

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