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Re: editor wars! vim vs. emacs. WIMPY vs. fullscreen. ed is the one true editor!



 Derek Martin wrote: 
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 06:45:32PM -0500, Brendan Kidwell wrote: 
>> Well, I really shouldn't have started an editor war or anything like 
>> it. :^) Honestly, I just can't adapt to vim or emacs. I grew up with 
>> MS-DOS and Windows, and quit using Windows full time some time in 
>> the past few years. 
> 
> Have you tried Xemacs?  It has all the features and power of emacs 
> plus pull-down menus for many of the most common actions, and even has 
> context-specific menus for various modes.  It is definitely not as 
> light-weight as a vi clone, but most emacs fans will tell you that 
> this is just fine, because you should never, ever exit emacs. ;-) 


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