[aklug] Re: Emacs, vi(m) or other

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On 08/15/10 22:06, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Friday 13 August 2010 20:24:55 Christopher Kunzler wrote:
>> Sorry about brining up religion, I was just wondering what
>> everyone's preference is.
>
> I can't control myself any longer .
>
> Caveat, desktop user pov.
>
> Of course it depends...on the job at hand
>
> For simple editing of a text file I use nano, default on a Debian install, so
> it is everywhere :)
>
> I like vi, but I don't need the features so I forget how to use it.
>
> emacs, never installed it, and in recent memory, it doesn't get installed by
> default. Seems like there was a time when emacs was installed...hmmm.
>
>

Probably the reason Emacs isn't installed everywhere be default is
because even the stripped down Emacs binary is 10M+ in size, while nano
is around 100K. Not sure how vim weighs in, off the top of my head.

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Christopher Howard
frigidcode.com
theologia.indicium.us
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