21 Jul
2025
21 Jul
'25
2:45 p.m.
I love lisp, but emacs, not so much. I do a lot of different operating systems and I found
vi to be much more consistent, but I’m not knocking emacs, just not my cup of tea.
Will
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On Jul 21, 2025, at 9:15 AM, Chet Ramey
<chet.ramey(a)case.edu> wrote:
On 7/21/25 10:12 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
I think it depends. You have to have a passing familiarity with lisp to
really take advantage of GNU emacs, but there are plenty of emacs-like
editors out there (I maintain one, based on microemacs from way back)
that have emacs-style key bindings and similar functionality.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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On Mon,
Jul 21, 2025 at 09:59:54AM -0400, Chet Ramey via COFF wrote:
So many smart people I know love emacs. I forced myself to live in
it
for a year, not the emacs vi mode stuff, just straigth emacs.
I never got to the point that I liked it. I think it's the lisp aspect,
if you don't love lisp, I don't think you'll love emacs. On 7/20/25 9:52 AM, Will Senn wrote:
As a vi guy, I cannot even understand emac's
appeal. I've tried countless
times, even going emacs only for a while... when I went back to vi, it was
like old shoes, very comfortable.
Because familiarity is very powerful. Lots of people mistake it for
intuitiveness.