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Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?

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From: Sven Guckes
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:00
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dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (David Kastrup):
> > Emacs is the mother of any development environment I came across so far.
> > The only downside are its size and thus its sometimes slow loading time.
> That's why it comes with emacsclient. You are supposed to start just *one*
> emacs per computing session, then edit all the rest using emacsclient resp.
> multiple frames.  Pretty workable, except if you tend to suspend emacs on
> text consoles.

The use of "emacs client" does not seem to be known to the casual user.
We often get a few people using emacs on the X server - and it sure keeps the
machine busy as hell.  That's why I tell newbies to use use a smaller editor.
Like "pico" for example.  As soon as they ask me about "search and replace"
I show them a slightly better editor.  Some even make it to Vi.
And only those who want everything in one program get to see emacs.  ;-)

Sven
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From: guckes@banach.math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?
Date: 1996/06/28
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