Re: 2.18.2 - Thoughts so far

[Paul Scott]

On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 07:51:49AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> Paul Scott <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 03, 2015 at 10:00:39PM -0400, PMA wrote:
> >> Hear, hear!
> >> 
> >> Ivan Kuznetsov wrote:
> >> >Do yourself a serious favor and learn vi
> >
> > Or Emacs!
> 
> At the current point of time, I find LilyPond-mode not a convincing case
> for using Emacs.  I am using LilyPond-mode in order to use Emacs (as I
> use it for everything, and it's a reasonably good deal when you do
> that), but I don't think I'd be using Emacs in order to use
> LilyPond-mode.
> 
> vi is a nice compact skill set to have (basically, you need to learn a
> one-page help sheet or vi will be horrible, but the one page is enough)
> whenever Emacs is not yet booted either on your computer or the user's
> mind.

I hate a modal editor like vi where I have to remember whether I'm in
edit mode or enter data mode.

Paul