editors in rescue mode

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:35 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 08:00 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> >> Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 17:26 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Yes. I didn't try nano, didn't think of it.
> >> >
> >> > Or to avoid dependence on any terminal emulator use "ed". I used to
> >> > have to do this on an old VAX-11-780 in single user mode where the
> >> > console was literally a hardcopy teletype!
> >> 
> >> >From /usr/share/emacs/*/etc/JOKES:
> > 
> > LOL!  Thanks for that.
> > 
> > As an historical note, 
> 
> I hope you realize historical notes just ruin the humor :-)

That was the intent. ;-)

I had to give the history of vi because like other things "editor wars"
get religious awfully fast.  My general philosophy is use what is
comfortable for you whether it is Emacs, vi, nano or even (gasp!) ed.
Personally, I think vi is an awful editor with its modality and less
than obvious command set.  Emacs and even nano are much more elegant in
a lot of ways. Sadly, I have used vi so much (because it was available
everywhere when I consulted), it is wired into my spine with unfortunate
effects when I try and use a word processor like OO.  I end up typing
things like 'dd' or 'cw' or ':wq' and get frustrated when the "right"
thing does not happen.

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