Subj : Re: your opinion of current world situation
To   : kirkspragg
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri May 17 2024 07:14:00

-=> kirkspragg wrote to Spectre <=-

 ki> The magic spells one needs to incant in Emacs to do basic stuff like
 ki> run a spell check just blew my mind.. Whereas Vim manages to go in the
 ki> complete opposite direction - i.e. concise and yet obtuse to the point
 ki> of being equally arcane & difficult to use.

Designed for a low-resource computer without a mouse. Bill Joy said if
he were writing an editor that others would use, it wouldn't have been
vi - that was his personal editor.



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