[ale] Ongoing vim vs. emacs

[Warren Myers]

I vote for Thompson Freeman to do the presentation....     [=^D

On 6/3/08, Thompson Freeman <tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
>
> On 06/03/2008 02:19:20 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > 2008/6/3 Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com>:
> > > New article out about something called cream to make vim
> > easier for new
> > > users (maybe even the emacs folks that can't figure it
> > out):
> > >
> > > http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6045/
> > >
> > > I like this from the article:
> > >
> > > "Vim has a tremendous amount of power, stability, and
> > extensibility to offer
> > > users (Emacs… ahhh, not so much)"
> > >
> > > Let the flames begin…
> >
> > Interesting.  While I'm a hardcore vi/vim fan, I've never
> > seen anyone
> > claim emacs was *less* powerful and extendable
> > than anything else.  Emacs just lets you extend it
> > yourself until
> > you've overextended yourself.
>
> This would imply emacs is similar to an infinite coil of
> rope - as in "give enough rope to hang himself".
>
> What I have to wonder is whether or not anybody has tried
> taking a kernel, filesystem, and emacs and creating a lisp
> machine or a general purpose computer from there.
>
> If not, who is going to do so just to make a presentation
> at an ALE meeting?? 8-)
>
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