[ale] editors, was ... Re: Job listing

[Charles Shapiro]

Huh. That was short. (
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=nano&word2=pico   )

-- CHS
(Yes, I'm an emacs user..)

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> <GONG!!> Both are OT posts. The flame war is nano-vs-pico
>
> who uses what and why or why not
>
> those luser vi-vs-emacs dweebs are so 1990's...
>
> Or how about:
> mutt vs pine
> epiphany vs konqueror
> fvwm vs twm
> puppy linux vs tiny sofa
> pulseaudio vs arts
> c-cell vs d-cell batteries
> tastes great vs less filling
>
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> > ...so long as it is vim rather than nvi.
> >
> > Emacs is an anagram of maces so I predict we'll shortly be clubbed by
> > those who are still silly enough to believe emacs is a good editor.  :p
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> > Geoffrey
> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:57 AM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] editors, was ... Re: Job listing
> >
> > Jim Kinney wrote:
> >
> >> I now return you to your latest nano-vs-pico editor war.
> >
> > Why bother?  vi is all anyone needs...
> >
> >
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> > Until later, Geoffrey
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