From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 120226 invoked by alias); 22 Jul 2015 14:01:10 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 120211 invoked by uid 89); 22 Jul 2015 14:01:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-ob0-f179.google.com Received: from mail-ob0-f179.google.com (HELO mail-ob0-f179.google.com) (209.85.214.179) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:01:08 +0000 Received: by obnw1 with SMTP id w1so134423192obn.3 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:01:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=jouAJez1lU91ARJgV3S+YrwX7vH9zeA8G7CvzBHeIrY=; b=P9wiraeLldN0ylJtN/mcU/63CPo1t9ySy/KTsdJKqMH9IJ3Gt548/6FYun+Z7wT5hC 2fJVU0uYpYweGxCUqtC/t4cBy40gjaHl+HblHGAZhd4UbLlraNl2UVGq6/BHYumBI6pC 73m/CqjzWRYecTDYpboL9zSps3eqgGIdyWSEMcDLR17/OyocUQh+J8CalUVf0jBjjQCx 18UJGVZRVHZONFQXiCXf9wcZJDHCJReZc5soDsVPFMZMP09c8pG10GoGCbUKSuJkO7PJ qG/8pFJAubJWO3s1dikovjORnZXdRAL6zxSXJsf+gNZmZo0cQDZve8G3z4283sXXD//z Z8AA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmnln0ha4bDSd1pcfEDD41h6TP1pUuIe+GJ1W9o+SiP374PgOBx+rsjRsugULL09ggn/khl X-Received: by 10.202.214.16 with SMTP id n16mr2564263oig.75.1437573665961; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:01:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.202.50.133 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 07:00:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <04ac01d0c302$0b61e3e0$2225aba0$@gmail.com> References: <55A8EE5B.7030802@redhat.com> <0BFBD816-636E-4D63-A452-E1AE7AA1696B@etr-usa.com> <04ac01d0c302$0b61e3e0$2225aba0$@gmail.com> From: Robert Pendell Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 14:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Vim wins again. :) To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00007.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:37 AM, cyg Simple <> wrote: >> From: Stephen John Smoogen >> >> On 17 July 2015 at 11:45, Warren Young <> wrote: >> > On Jul 17, 2015, at 6:00 AM, Eric Blake <> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 07/08/2015 02:00 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> >> >> >>> Thoughts from the other editor geeks here? >> >> >> >> You should know better than to provoke editor wars :) >> > >> > I was hoping for thoughtful commentary instead, like your answer. :) >> >> Then you should have worded your original question better. Pithy questio= ns get >> pithy answers. >> >> What exactly do you want to hear from people that isn't something that h= as >> been said since 1986 USENET multiple multiple times.. Emacs does X bette= r than >> vi? vi does Y better than emacs? In the end, it is really about what you= the user >> find better for how your brain works. So you can't really know that unle= ss you >> spend a month in each editor trying to see which one works better for yo= ur >> brain. If notepad++ is what works best for you then what does it matter = that >> someone else uses emacs or vi or atom? > > And then enters the shell command line editor. One of the first things I= do besides set the erase character is to set -o vi. > > IDE editors are another source of contention. Some allow for external pr= ocess for the editor while others do not. As Stephen says it is all a matt= er of preference of which color the bike shed is. Some like red, others li= ke blue and still others like green and yellow. That said a comparison of = choice doesn't matter and is a waste of publishing ink except that some lik= e Warren love to hear about it and encourages that ink. None the less my c= hoice is over others is gvim, vim, vi or whatever is available if those are= not. > > -- > cyg Simple > > *cough*The people who forgot to remove email addresses from the body*cough* Anyways I'm a nano person but mostly because it was the first one I used. I can use vi(m) with some difficulty. I've never used emacs before. Robert Pendell A perfect world is one of chaos. Keybase: http://keybase.io/shinji257