From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: 11 Jun 2003 21:03:05 GMT Organization: IBM Global Services North -- Burlington, Vermont, USA Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1K1Da.3886$7E.44637@news-server.bigpond.net.au> <84of1c78ka.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055366026 20741 80.91.224.249 (11 Jun 2003 21:13:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 21:13:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 11 23:13:44 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19QCud-0005Nz-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:13:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19QCwa-0002We-Cd for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:15:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!an02.austin.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news.btv.ibm.com!kgold Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.watson.ibm.com Original-X-Trace: news.btv.ibm.com 1055365385 21228 9.2.16.245 (11 Jun 2003 21:03:05 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@btv.ibm.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Jun 2003 21:03:05 GMT X-Newsreader: xrn 9.01 Originator: kgold@watson.ibm.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114377 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10871 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10871 While I'm as emacs-fanatic as anyone here, it's still good to know some vi. vi comes standard with Unix and emacs sometimes does not. Some day you'll be at a customer site, and vi will be all they have. Peter Lee writes: > > Why should the employer care what tool you use to get a particular job > done with? I mean unless your job is to create vi add-ons (or > something actually targetting vi) what difference does it make how the > text is generated? If I ever found myself faced with such a > brain-dead employer I'd have to move along. -- Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646