[ale] I can see why RHEL people don't use Emacs...

[Geoffrey Myers]

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Even after being taught how to use emacs years ago in a training
> class where the software maker thought it was "da bomb" I went right
> back to using vi when I got back to my office because I simply
> couldn't see any great benefit of emacs.   The funny thing is the
> discussion about emacs being a Linux abomination.  I first saw it on
> UNIX long before I started working on any Linux system.

Yeah, it's been around a long while.  The old joke was:

emacs == eight megs and constantly swapping

That should tell you how long it's been around as that was when 8 megs 
was a LOT of memory.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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