[wplug] A question of etiquette

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:16:58 -0700 (PDT)
Rob Prowel <tempest766 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:07:35 -0400
> > Zachary Uram <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Blasphemy! Emacs is the One True Editor. 
> > 
> > Sit in front of a system with Ultrix installed and
> > say
> > that.  :)
> 
> 
> you tell him...I can hear the 9GB scsi drive racking
> its heads now as the swap file fills up with other
> processes to make room for the emacs image.

Heh, on my GUI system, I have nedit installed.  It's a very
lightweight WYSIWYG type editor.  Though I still use
vi(1) 25% of the time.  All my non-GUI systems, it's
vi(1) all the way.  I can't understand installing an application
for the mere purpose of text editing when the base has
several methods to edit text:

# cat <<EOF>> TXTFILE
# vi TXTFILE
# sed/awk/tr/whatever TXTFILE > NEWTXTFILE

Too easy.

-- 
Tom Rhodes