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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language
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Paul Hedderly |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:18:59 +0100 |
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:49:37PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua Haberman <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> I mean, if writing extensions came naturally to them, wouldn't
> >> they be Emacs users instead?
>
> Joshua> There are a lot of other factors that influence an Emacs
> Joshua> vs. Vim preference. After using Vim for a while I tried
> Joshua> to like Emacs but I was so used to Vim's modality that
> Joshua> having to hit CTRL-foo to do anything drove me crazy.
>
> Precisely. vim does exactly what you need, and no more. No need for
Absolute tosh. My bet is that 99% of vi users use about 10% of it's
features. With vim that goes to 99% of vim uses know about and use about
2% of vims features.
Emacs may have an even worse ratio!
> Again, a different culture. My Emacs processes don't have "startup
> time" in any practical sense, it's part of system boot. (XEmacs
> in fact can be used as a login shell.)
I would love to get into Emacs - I just have the time to learn another
language, and way of working. It just seems to steep a learning curve
before it becomes of much value.
--
Paul
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Colin Walters, 2003/10/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, David Brown, 2003/10/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Colin Walters, 2003/10/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Tom Lord, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Colin Walters, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/16
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Joshua Haberman, 2003/10/17
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language, Miles Bader, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, David Brown, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language,
Paul Hedderly <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] (even further offtopic) emacs keybindings, Colin Walters, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, David Brown, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Colin Walters, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Tom Lord, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/21
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Tom Lord, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Joshua Haberman, 2003/10/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extension language, Tom Lord, 2003/10/17
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Extension language, zander, 2003/10/17