VI

[Geoffrey Gerrietts]

At the time, I was working in a shop where a fresh disk format and a clean
install of the OS was as common as a reboot -- in fact, moreso -- and we had
like 30 machines and a plethora of different OS flavors.

I did copy my .emacs file from machine to machine, for the first ten or
twenty machines. And on some of those machines, I was actually able to take
the time to make the customizations so it worked inside that environment.
Many of those boxes didn't even /have/ emacs, and so I'd hafta install
emacs, too.

And then I got sick of it, caved, and learned vi.

I don't hate emacs, but I don't really see a compelling reason to go back.

I'm pretty comfortable now. :)

---
Geoff Gerrietts <geoff at homegain.com>
Software Engineer, HomeGain.com
510-655-0800 x4320
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bolen [mailto:db3l at fitlinxx.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 3:46 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: VI
> 
> 
> Geoffrey Gerrietts <geoff at homegain.com> writes:
> 
> > On the other hand, I use vim religiously now. I can't 
> imagine editing in
> > anything else. I've used emacs, and it used to drive me 
> absolutely insane
> > the way 9/10 of what I wanted to do required typing M-x
> > really-longass-function-name, and how I had to re-bind my 
> keyboard to be
> > useful on every new machine I worked on.
> 
> Ah, that's what your .emacs is for... I think mine is probably closing
> in on 12+ years old now (before that it was Tops-20 Emacs which was a
> different beast) and aside from tweaks/enhancements when upgrading
> Emacs it just follows me to each new machine and each new job :-)
> 
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