From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal? Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 16:58:15 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <8761yr6cjs.fsf@gmail.com> References: <0b72021c-139f-4269-8e81-5b5ef97fb83d@googlegroups.com> <8761yu64e4.fsf@Servus.decebal.nl> <87r4higq45.fsf@gmail.com> <87ip2tyftv.fsf@yahoo.fr> <20130508155351.GA5399@hysteria.proulx.com> <87obclrrb9.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <25153223-A058-4762-A1FC-7744472B958A@Web.DE> <2A25C277-7CBD-47DC-8954-67D0C2A87009@web.de> <5D59EB28-D184-4012-9AFE-0EC0A968A559@web.de> <8761ys6kcy.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: jay.p.belanger@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368136909 15708 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2013 22:01:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 22:01:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 10 00:01:45 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UaYuB-0006qp-Ne for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 May 2013 00:01:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49490 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaYuB-0000nH-9n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 18:01:39 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="2aa585afd1951c0cf4ea5b94784f9ed6"; logging-data="1354"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/XcnTFWjv2nMnxPrSddukuP/MvbJI6Dog=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3wViBS0l7lNcoQfVgjxJH6t6jb4= sha1:LwxTNDigJiddOfRZZ/pfQNu1lk4= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198347 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 09 May 2013 18:01:30 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90613 Archived-At: > He was not accurate because he stated this could not be done in Vim. You were griping about his (accurate) use of the work "visit" when you called him inaccurate. > On May 9, 2013 2:06 PM, "Jay Belanger" wrote: > >> Jai Dayal writes: >> >> > And BTW, you said "visit", not edit. Visit does not strictly mean edit. >> >> From the Emacs manual: >> "Visiting" a file means reading its contents into an Emacs buffer so >> you can edit them. Emacs makes a new buffer for each file that you >> visit. >> >> > You are just as ambiguous as you are inaccurate. >> >> Technically true, since he was both unambiguous and accurate. >>