Posted by Rick Merrill on 02/09/07 22:16

Doug Jacobs wrote:
> In alt.video.dvd Colin McFadyen <colinm@rideau.carleton.ca> wrote:
>
>> Now there's a flame war that many young 'uns have never heard of...
>> vi vs. emacs ;-)
>
> I don't know. I guess it depends on what field you're in.
>
> "VI or emacas?" was an actual question asked in an interview. I answered
> "vi" and the interviewer replied "Correct." I don't know if there's
> really an right answer there, or if the interviewer just wanted to see if
> I knew what he was talking about.
>
> One of my former bosses was a big emacs fan. He basically used emacs as
> his shell. He did everything with emacs. Mail, news, command shell...
>

That's nothing, I used to dream in TECO!

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