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Article #3986Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?
From: Bruce A. Templeton
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <pxu3vxehbb.fsf@office.demon.net>, Nicolai Guba <nicolai@demon.net> wrote: > >Anyway. Emacs is the mother of any development environment I came across so >far. The only downside really are its size and thus its sometimes slow loading >time. You cannot expect emacs on your recovery floppies. Thus, I would say >that any serious UNIX user is at least familiar with both, vi and emacs. The main problem I have with using emacs as a development/working environment is that it isn't multithreaded. If you try to read news or fontify a large buffer, etc, all other work will come to a halt. Is multithreading planned in the next couple of years for (X)Emacs? -Bruce -- Bruce A. Templeton brucet@engr.sgi.com Silicon Graphics Inc. (415) 933-3872
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