[Tutor] GNU Emacs and Python

Wayne Werner waynejwerner at gmail.com
Tue Nov 1 21:34:56 CET 2011


On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Steve Willoughby <steve at alchemy.com> wrote:

> On 01-Nov-11 13:19, Alexander Etter wrote:
>
>> I like than .png image! It does appear vi biased though!
>>
>
> Not quite, notice the initial steep climb.  :)  Yes, it's tongue-in-cheek,
> but feels about right, once you master vi (or emacs) you're
> able to be amazingly productive with complex operations involving
> text files.
>
> You think emacs is bad, though? Try TECO.


Or better yet, ed: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html

Interesting to note though, ed's manpage has got quite an update in the
past few years to something that's actually useful (and there are several
ed tutorials). I learned to use a little bit of ed, and it was fun to see
where a lot of vim commands came from.

-Wayne
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