From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 20:12:12 GMT Organization: SBC http://yahoo.sbc.com 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054930564 9803 80.91.224.249 (6 Jun 2003 20:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 20:16:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 06 22:16:01 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 19ONd2-0002X6-00 for ; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 22:16:01 +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 19ONci-0002gO-ST for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:15:40 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!c03.atl99!rip!news.webusenet.com!prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr11.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xr/lANmEtvvGuCqwk1cuchdIXh8= Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.62.199.3 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: newssvr11.news.prodigy.com 1054930332 ST000 216.62.199.3 (Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:12:12 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:12:12 EDT X-UserInfo1: [[OSS\WGPZYKRT\YN[OJNW@@YJ_ZTB\MV@BNMRQIMASJETAANVW[AKWZE\]^XQWIGNE_[EBL@^_\^JOCQ^RSNVLGTFTKHTXHHP[NB\_C@\SD@EP_[KCXX__AGDDEKGFNB\ZOKLRNCY_CGG[RHT_UN@C_BSY\G__IJIX_PLSA[CCFAULEY\FL\VLGANTQQ]FN Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114238 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:10732 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10732 >>>> Harry Putnam writes: Harry> Sounds like you need to bone up on vi before you go much Harry> further with your employment quests. An employer expecting Harry> you to know vi isn't asking a terrible lot after all. 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. Harry> Or expecting an employee to know about basic OS stuff like Harry> setting the erase character in shell.. really isn't asking Harry> a terrible lot either. Not sure how you draw a correlation between expecting a developer to know the basics of the OS he's developing on/for and dictating which editor he will use. The former is both obvious and common sense while the latter is just silly.