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

[Jeff Lightner]

Funny sight.

 

Too bad it shows Bill beating Linus by so large a margin.

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Charles Shapiro
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:05 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] editors, was ... Re: Job listing

 

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...
>
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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