From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ajit Mylavarapu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Hard to switch from vi Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:48:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160361640 27668 80.91.229.2 (9 Oct 2006 02:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 02:40:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 09 04:40:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GWl4C-0001sA-8k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 04:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GWl4B-0005zz-Pm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: deeplypipelined.stanford.edu Original-X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1160358480 4988 128.12.167.126 (9 Oct 2006 01:48:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142285 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37904 Archived-At: Wen Weng wrote: > Thanks. I want to give it a try for the reason of learning a (hopefully) > different way of thinking... > > > Ignacio Mondino wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 07:32:01PM -0400, Wen Weng wrote: >> >>> 4. Should I really need to switch to emacs? >> >> That`s depends on you :) . You should feel confortable in your working >> environment, maybe you don't need to use Emacs at all. >> >> It's just another tool (a REALLY powerfull tool) to learn, just like >> many of us learn vi, which is powerfull a powerfull too. >> :)) Emacs = lot of keyboard clobbering ... but, yeah, I use emacs anyway ... :-)