![]() But that’s basically it right? Most things I do in a day can be done with those few things. What do you use in a normal day of hacking code (me anyway)? Well, an editor for your work, xterms/rxvts for doing maintenance, a browser, email client, chat client, icq client, quake (of course). When I initially read about it they said it was an “environment” that you worked in, and that you never had to leave. I still find myself using vi for quick and dirty little tasks like editing crontab or something, but I’m forcing myself more and more to use emacs when I can. I have been forcing myself for the last few weeks to learn it (thanks to my O’Reilly book) and use it wherever I can. Well, I decided thanks in part to everyone telling me not to, Emacs. So you are probably wondering if I’m now a Emacs user, a vi user, a pico user, or if I’ve given up on editors all together and am doing everything via echo(1). A couple of don’t do it! in there, but generally either arguments (vi is on every system/emacs is more user friendly) or congratulations for learning a new tool, or noting that it’s all worth it after the learning curve. The email side of things was more like how I’d expected it. Kinda disappointing for the purposes of this web page though. The comments that were there were more of a “Stay on the good side” or “good idea trying it out, you’ll like it” variety. On one hand, I expected a slew of “VI sucks!”, “Emacs sucks!” comments, which there were not. I admit I was kinda surprised by these responses. I promised to summarize here, and will do just that before I start talking about my views and experiences since this “challenge” was inadvertently made. Preliminary ConclusionsĪfter Iambe’s Column, there was a lot of email that was sent to me, and talk on talkback hit 45 comments. Comes with the territory of being a “power user” I guess. Don’t get me wrong, vim (hereafter known as vi) was what I have used as an editor for the last 5+ years in Linux and Unix, but the hugeness and complexity of Emacs fascinated me, and the ability to learn such a tool would be a great skill I thought. Another person I knew was also on the Vi(m) side, and unable to see the merit in learning another Editor, quoting from the Bible of Unix, preaching of small tools all working together in unison, and of which editor was installed on 99.9% of all UNIX’s out there.Įmacs interested me though. I took offense to this, in a humorous way, and decided to go and give them both a good try out to see how they were. Subsequently, she wrote this column about me and my choice of editor. PrefaceĪlmost a month ago, Iambe and I were talking and I casually mentioned that I was reading a book on learning Emacs. Don’t care about the preamble? Head for the meat.
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