Re: Unix Holy Wars

[Gary <gary-list-silug@mygirlfriday.info>]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:12:45PM -0600 or thereabouts, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 09:47:38PM -0600, jlawler wrote:
> > emacs vs vi (editor)
> 
> You mean there are people who don't recognize the obvious superiority
> of vi?

All right ...
 
> Sorry, I had to say it.  ;-)

Good, glad you did <g>

> I think the big ones that keep surfacing are the already-mentioned
> Perl vs. Python, KDE vs. GNOME, and MySQL vs. PostgreSQL, plus the
> local favorite Sendmail vs. Postfix (or Qmail).

Can't live without my Q ... I just dropped in an IMAP server, made for
/Maildir/ format.

> Speaking of vi vs. emacs, I actually played with viper-mode under
> xemacs for a while recently...  I was considering using it to get
> psgml, but eventually decided against it.  (gvim is sufficiently evil
> for me.)

I have used viper mode quite a lot in emacs.. It works well. I do a lot of
my editing that way.  I have it start automatically.  Just seems to me
that emacs has too many extra keystrokes to do stuff, or change major or
minor modes, even with the tab key shortcuts..

-- 
Gary

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