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[Avi Greenbury]

Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2009/4/6 Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com>:
>> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>>> Never used vi (well, I tried to in the early 90's, but I thought it
>>> was too complicated so I continued using Emacs instead). What can it
>>> do that Emacs can't?
>> Heh. I don't think I've ever managed to get out of emacs without pulling
>> the plug on the box, let alone make any meaningful adjustment to a file...
>> It is on my list of things to learn, though. Big downside of Vim is that
>>  whenever I use anything else I end up with :w appearing all over the
>> document...
> 
> Looks to me that it's more a question about what you are used to
> rather than what is best…

Oh yeah, I think most people are aware of that. I hope so, at least.
I only started using Vim because everyone told me to use Emacs...

> I never understood this war thing anyway. Why not just let people use
> whatever they want? 

Tradition. Where there's a choice, there's impassioned argument over 
which is the correct choice.
I think it's down to the kinds of people making the choice, and the 
generally scientific way they go about doing it that makes computers so 
prone to them.


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Avi Greenbury :) http://aviswebsite.co.uk