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Article #8232Re: Okay--I give; why is Emacs so great?
From: Michele Sara Milgram
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 06:01
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 06:01
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My only other choices right now are vi and ed, which are no comparison. If I were on VMS and could use TPU/EVE, then the differences might not be so great. 1) Not having to switch between command mode & insert/over-write mode is wonderful. It's a pain to be in vi and realize you weren't in insert mode after all. It also takes a moment to realize why nothing happened after you typed ":wq" (didn't get out of insert mode). 2) Auto-save has made life so much easier. I often dial-up & the cats often walk over the other phones .... 3) I have a personal preference to RMAIL (part of GNU Emacs) to Mailx. It's also nice to have the editor alert me when I get mail & to be able to read it without leaving the editor. 4) Multiple buffers, windows, dired, and other features I might have left out .... If the long start-up time bothers you & you actually have to leave GNU Emacs to do something, stop the job & then foreground it. -- Michele Milgram milgram@paideia.uchicago.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!gatech!ncar!tank!paideia!milgram From: milgram@paideia.uchicago.edu (Michele Sara Milgram) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Okay--I give; why is Emacs so great? Summary: much better than vi (my only other choice) Keywords: Gnu Emacs Message-ID: <1297@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 6 Jan 89 06:01:47 GMT References: <490@blake.acs.washington.edu> <KARL.89Jan5172420@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Reply-To: milgram@paideia.uchicago.edu (Michele Sara Milgram) Organization: University of Chicago, Dept of Behavioral Sciences Lines: 25