16 Jun
2011
16 Jun
'11
1:27 p.m.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:57:02AM -0700, Rich Alderson wrote:
From: Christian Liendo
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 8:17 AM
I remember when our system admin refused to load an editor, it was
way too bloated he said, it would slow down the system.
He was refusing to load up vi.
(PDP-11/45 Unix release 7)
So. Frankly, I just laugh at silly editor wars.
Remember kids,
emacs is for coding,
vi is for conf files,
ed is for freaking out unix n00bs.
- Diane
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- db at FreeBSD.org db at db.net http://www.db.net/~db
Why leave money to our children if we don't leave them the Earth?
I have not seen a more useless off topic thread
in a while.
If we want to talk religion why not talk about
Commodore vs. Atari
Apple vs. IBM
CP/M vs. DOS
80x86 vx 68xxx
The good old days, where zealots ranted on
technology.
I used to participate in the Emacs wars (the civil wars, GNU vs. XEmacs,