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>>>>> Regarding Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?; sailesh@wowbagger.torolab.ibm.com (Saileshwar Krishnamurthy) adds:
In article <u2688eftev.fsf@wowbagger.torolab.ibm.com> sailesh@wowbagger.torolab.ibm.com (Saileshwar Krishnamurthy) writes:

Andries> The biggest problem I had was indeed finding out this
Andries> handful of commands which are essential. Maybe this is a
Andries> good question for the FAQ: what are the basic commands
Andries> one needs to know, before one can use emacs?
Saileshwar> 
Saileshwar> I think the tutorial is really helpful here. I have converted 4
Saileshwar> people to date, and I always started out by setting up their
Saileshwar> environment and making them go through the tutorial. Once that's
Saileshwar> done it's a  breeze.
Saileshwar> 

Maybe the issue should not be in converting people.  This has a rather sour
aftertaste.   

Emacs is a lisp "interpreter".  It really is an environment, not an editor
(sounds like the GNU acronym <grin>).  Some cynics even call it an
"operating-system with a subshell called UNIX"!  

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.
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