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If you only have time to learn one, pick up vi
it's on pretty much every box you'll ever talk to 
and works in amazingly tight corners.

but don't give up on emacs, the learning curve is steep
and it can save you amazing amounts of time and stress.

My .02 units of negotiable currency


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:31:54 -0800 (PST), Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Bob Miller wrote:
> 
> > walter fry wrote:
> >
> > > Ifound the cat command     now how do I change arc from true to
> > > false....Please
> >
> > Use a text editor.  Linux has 70 or 80 text editors to choose from.  I
> > think I recall that you're using a GUI, so try kedit or gedit.
> >
> >       kedit /etc/sysconfig/clock
> >
> > If you're not using a GUI, try nano, vi or emacs.
> > --
> > Bob Miller                              K<bob>
> 
> I recommend that you learn one of the real editors, one that doesn't
> require a GUI.  Otherwise if you find you have to do repairs from
> outside of X windows, you will be SOL.
> 
> The top contenders are vi and emacs.  Both are very powerful and
> both are used by real programmers.  Both are commonly installed on
> most Unix systems.  Both are backed by fanatics with religious zeal.
> Both have a long history.
> 
> emacs
>   + Basically Modeless.  Ordinary characters are always inserted.
>   - Complex.  And very large.
>   + Totally programmable and reconfigurable.
>   - Harder on your fingers because of all the control characters
>     you have to type.  Avoid emacs if you have carpal tunnel.
>   + If you are merging the contents of several files into one,
>     emacs is hard to beat.
> vi
>   + Almost everything can be done with one finger.
>   - You have to remember if you are in insert mode, overwrite mode,
>     command mode.
>   + Small and fast.
>   + Because it avoids control characters it tends to be more
>     compatible with serial port protocols.
> 
> Now that the subject is presented, I'm sure several people will
> try to turn this into a religious arguement about why their choice
> is the only choice.  It happens every time both editors are mentioned.
> --
> Allen Brown
>   work: Agilent Technologies      non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
>         allen_brown at agilent.com             abrown at peak.org
>   No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
>   --- Sir Winston Churchill
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