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[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 05:33:49PM -0500, karina.popkova at verizon.net wrote:
> To what extent is vi or EMACs used,
> day to day, for development activities,
> writing code, editing, compiling, debug,
> etc ... Do hackers still use this stuff
> or do they concede to graphical editors
> and perhaps move onto next generation
> "eclipse" as an environment?


The big split, in my experience, is actually between system
administrators, who expect to find vi on every system, always
working exactly the same way, and programmers, who carry around
a complex customized emacs environment that suits their every
whim.

-dsr-

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