23 February 2005

GeekSpeak: Ask Dr Aybabtu

Dear Dr Aybabtu,

Emacs or vi?

Vim Vigor


Dear Vim,

Mu!

One schmack upside your head, or two? Answer: at least eight. Please grok that the purpose of an operating system and computing hardware is to boostrap some form of emacs, and that modern vi implementations share more in common with old emacs implementations that with old vi implementations. With this were you enlightened? No. Vi users seldom are.

Dr Aybabtu

PS: If you'd like to ask Dr Aybabtu "mac or pc" or "bsd or linux" or "ginger or mary ann", please re-read the previous answer carefully, then please kindly get bent. DA

PPS: I wanted to use stronger language, but my editor shot me down. Dadgummit! DA

PPPS: Sorry about the dangling preposition in the previous PS. Ed.

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