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

[David Payne]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:32:27PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> 
> >>Isn't ae the canonical editor for Debian?
> >
> >   Isn't it Ubuntu that has a Canonical editor? ;)
> >
> >   If the spots are not all taken, I'll join the pro-Emacs side.
> 
> Thanks Chris.  We have 2 for Emacs but no one is standing to defend the 
> honour of vi or any of his clones.
> 
> If we don't fill the spots shortly I'm going with plan B.  Yeah I have a 
> plan B :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob

Ahh, I use vim all the time.  But I don't consider myself a 
vim expert so I am not only going to defend it.

Also to defend vim against Emacs one should know at least a 
little bit about Emacs.  I know of Emacs and bits and pices 
of it but I never used it beyond just starting it up.

David
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