vi vs Emacs debate live at GTALUG September 11 !!!

[Colin McGregor]

Anyone know of a good cheap source of metal helmets
and flack jackets?

It had to be said :-) 

Colin.


--- Robert Brockway <robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> For the September meeting I'd like to run a debate
> (sort of).
> 
> The title of the debate is "Emacs is superior to
> vi".  This will be a friendly 
> and well natured debate on the relative merits of
> our favourite two editors.
> 
> I need 3 people for the affirmative and 3 people for
> the negative.  The 
> affirmative people will be saying Emacs is superior
> to vi while the negative 
> people will be disputing this.  Each person will
> speak for 4-5 minutes.
> 
> Please email me asap to be a debater in GTALUG's
> inaugural debate and indicate 
> which side you would prefer to debate (or if you
> have no preference).  One 
> thing we can be sure of - GTALUG has plenty of
> people ready to make themselves 
> heard ;)
> 
> Important Clarifications:
> 
> - The title is deliberately vague - the definition
> of Emacs here includes all 
> past & present versions of the OS^H^Heditor.
> 
> - vi is correctly pronounced "vee eye".  The vi team
> are expected to pronounce 
> vi correctly.  The Emacs team may be granted a
> little more latitude in how to 
> pronounce vi.  The vi team may get away with saying
> "Emucks".
> 
> - Debaters may demonstrate points in either editor
> using a Linux system and the 
> overhead projector during their debate.
> 
> - Participants will be selected in the order the
> emails arrive in my inbox.  If 
> we have more than 6 offers of participation then
> those who offered first will 
> be invited to be judges.
> 
> - Participants in this debate will have first right
> of refusal on being a judge 
> in future debates until such time as they take up
> the offer.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob
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