[ale] dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

[Jeff Lightner]

The funny thing is there was once an application that yours truly had to
support and the training class for its programming was all in emacs.
After I got back to my office I promptly switched to doing all the
customization with vi and never felt I was missing anything.

Difference between Admins and Programmers - Yep - it is always the
programmers that ask for it.  Having been an Admin since 1991 I've heard
the request only a dozen times which makes me think that it is not even
ALL programmers that love it but merely a few die hards.

Everyone has preferences.  I've even had people ask for nvi on Linux
which made me shudder.   Luckily I was able to show that the specific
need they had (editing long lines) was more easily accomplished in vim.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 3:55 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:29 -0600, JK wrote:
> See here, young man:
> 
>    http://kneuro.net/vi-for-emacs/
> 
> (Corrections and suggestions for enhancement are most welcome, 
> incidentally.)
> 
> Unfortunately, I think life might literally be too short to fully
> master 
> both Emacs and vi...

Looks like there is some additional help out there on the web, too.
There is an implementation in JavaScript:

 http://gpl.internetconnection.net/vi/

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