Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!web4d.berkeley.edu!laba-4an From: laba-4an@web4d.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: EMACS better than Vi? Message-ID: <9811@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 10 May 88 19:36:12 GMT References: <3242@enea.se> <9498@sol.ARPA> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: laba-4an@web4d.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Andy McFadden) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 36 Summary: Yo! Read this again! In article <9498@sol.ARPA> jpayne@cs.rochester.edu (Jonathan Payne) writes: (For those who don't know, JOVE stands for "Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs") >Several peopling keep making a point which is slightly "annoying" to me, >which is, if all you want to do is simple editing then don't worry about >the fact that you are using VI. I don't use EMACS, I use JOVE, and so I >don't use any of the complicated features of emacs. Instead I use the Everybody hear that? You don't have to crank up a 1 megabyte lisp-based program on a VAX to do your editing. 95% of everything you need is in Jove (except, perhaps, M-x doctor). >basic features I have come to take for granted, like multiple buffers, >more than one window, interactive shells, automatic compilation and >error/grep parsing capabilities. JOVE is smaller than VI, so you don't >need huge, slow programs to get a lot of the nice functionality that I >have come to take for granted. The thought of using an editor which only >lets me have one buffer at a time is just horrifying ... VI is good for It can be annoying, but hardly horrifying. What I would like to see is a version of VI with multiple buffers and the ability of emacs to view/edit object code without dying. >sending mail and news, but forget it if you are writing a paper, a >program, or anything else that isn't mail or news. Here we agree to disagree, but that's not worth hashing over again. >Jonathan Payne > >P.S. Yes, I'm biased, I know. That's ok. It's your privilege to be biased. -- laba-4an@widow.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)