Funny article - EMACS vs vi - The endless geek holy war
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I ran into this very funny article from 2001 yesterday, covering the first 20 years of the emacs vs vi holy war: https://www.linux.com/news/emacs-vs-vi-endless-geek-holy-war/
An emacs user described how to use vi in 4 easy steps:
1. Procure fish, any kind, length > 12 inches
2. Freeze it overnight
3. Sit in front of PC, run vi
4. Holding fish by the tail, smash it repeatedly against your forehead until you decide to give EMACS a try because the fish scales are flying around your head and it’s starting to ache.
A vi user responded by adding a step prior to the first 4 steps:
"Type ’emacs’ before step 1, so that by the time step 4 is done, it will have finally finished loading."
I once used the VM provided by a high performance computing center. The guest OS is minimalized, and the only usable editor is vi. Even nano is unavailable.
Next time I may need to bring pre-compiled copies of emacs and nano.
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On 3/13/20 11:00 AM, name at domain wrote:
> Next time I may need to bring pre-compiled copies of emacs and nano.
What about mg? Nano isn't enough like Emacs for me.
Wait... mg does not support Unicode! NO!
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First time I found myself in vi, I couldn't figure out what to do or how to get any help. I finally switched to a different tty and shut down vi with a kill command.
I may want to try this method: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17479529/self-contained-portable-emacs
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