[Discuss] RMS in the news

[gaf at gapps.blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I was an emacs guy. Learned vi in about 1980, but when I worked for cadmus
I learned gosling  emacs. Used it for all my development until I switched
to atom

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On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 4:55 PM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Similarly for me with vi. I've been using vi since my first UNIX system in
> 1983, a PDP-11/34a running BSD Unix 2.8.
>
> I absolutely *hate* vim. When I install a new Linux system, one of the
> first add-ons I install is nvi, which is not a reimplementation like vim,
> but rather is derived from the BSD code base that I grew up with.
>
> When I use vim for anything non-trivial, I almost always run into cases
> where some functionality that my fingers know turns out to be missing, and
> cases where some bizarre mode that my fingers don't know about gets invoked
> inadvertently and I have no clue what it is or how to exit from it.
>
> When I use nvi, neither of those frustrating annoyances occur.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 4:23 PM Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
>
> > On 9/19/19 11:13 AM, Bill Horne wrote:
> > > RMS has left us the FSF, the GNU organization, and Emacs (which I use
> > > every day): we owe him a lot, both as a society and as a group, and I
> > > hope we can keep in mind the immense weight of his achievements on the
> > > balance of his life.
> >
> > I use emacs whenever I use my computer. In a sense I hate emacs, but it
> > is what my fingers know.
> >
> > -kb
> >
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