Best editor?

[Aahz]

In article <86k6nbww6z.fsf at guru.mired.org>, Mike Meyer  <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
>aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) writes:
>>
>> Use vim.  80% of the power of emacs at 20% of the learning curve.
>
>Hmm. Can I read mail/news/web pages in vim? I can in emacs.

Yup, that's why emacs stands for Eighty Megabytes And Constantly
Swapping.  ;-)

>Emacs is a computing environment. I read mail and news in it, so I
>don't have to worry about learning some applications custom editor
>(ok, a good MUA/newsreader will invoke my favorite editor - but that's
>Emacs, so why bother). I use emacs for the heavy lifting.

Doesn't work so well when you want to use an application that isn't
emacs, yet still invoke a custom editor.  But yeah, if you consider emacs
a Way of Life, then you're making sense.
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