21 Jul
2025
21 Jul
'25
3:44 p.m.
On 7/21/25 11:40 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM Chet Ramey via COFF
<coff(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
I learned emacs first because I started on TOPS-20 first. Then when I
moved to 4.2 BSD, emacs was there. There was no reason to learn vi then.
On 7/21/25 11:00 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
I learned emacs first because 'vi' was deemed too heavy-weight for or
poor VAX 11/750.
I'm wondering if maybe us "less
smart" people, just don't have the extra
cycles it takes to love emacs?
I don't think it's that. I think it's simpler: you put the time in to
master something -- or at least become familiar with it. Mastery breeds
familiarity breeds comfort. Even if after the fact you try to `spend
time' with another tool or editor, you're bucking the already-established
comfort level you've obtained.
So it's not smart or not. It's what's
familiar.
Exactly. Everyone here is smart.
--
``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/