Vim vs Emacs

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Jason Shaw wrote:

> Bearded and use vi almost exclusively, although I can get in and out of
> emacs and save my changes.

    Traitor! ;)

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:46 PM, John Martin <martjh-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> Bearded. Know enough Vi to get in and out without shooting myself in
>> the foot. Know *of* Emacs. Gedit and UltraEdit are my staples when a
>> GUI is to be had.  -j
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Peter John Hartman
>> <peterjohnhartman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:00:07PM -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
>>>> Ran across the following quote regarding VIM vs. Emacs (but does leave
>>>> a question regarding the women, such as this months GTALug speaker
>>>> Sacha Chua, who prefer Emacs...):
>>>>
>>>> "A man with no beard or a goatee is usually satisfied with Vim, once a
>>>> full beard is developed, Emacs is preferred" - Camilo Mesias
>>>
>>> I guess us joe users are clean shaven.

    The quotation came from a LinkedIn discussion on favourite text
    editors. I posted it to Facebook, where Colin found it. The only
    person who has suggested Joe also has a full beard.


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