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

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From: David Kastrup
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:00

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In article <4qf5lo$lhk@knot.queensu.ca> changj@jeff-lab@queensu.ca (Jianlin Chang) writes:

   I am considering learning emacs after using  vi for a long time. Is
   the time spend on learning really worth the benefits of emacs vs vi?

You cannot really compare both. Mastering emacs takes about a time
factor of 400 over mastering vi.

You can, however, get along pretty well with emacs without mastering
it, which is true to a lot less degree with vi.

Once you're going with emacs, there are a lot of tasks which emacs can
tackle in handy ways.

I think for me it was worth the time.
-- 
David Kastrup     Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de  Telephon: +49-234-700-5559

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From: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (David Kastrup)
Subject: Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?
Date: 1996/06/24
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