From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22896 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2002 01:09:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 22591 invoked from network); 17 Jul 2002 01:09:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu) (129.15.78.125) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Jul 2002 01:09:52 -0000 Received: from ou.edu (jcast@localhost) by d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6H1A1Z28086 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:10:01 -0500 Message-Id: <200207170110.g6H1A1Z28086@d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: d-ip-129-15-78-125.cs.ou.edu: jcast owned process doing -bs To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: gzip.exe as symlink... In-Reply-To: Message from Nicholas Wourms of "Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:02:14 PDT." <20020715210214.69438.qmail@web21003.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 18:51:00 -0000 From: Jon Cast X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01303.txt.bz2 Nicholas Wourms wrote: > Sigh, as usual the emacs camp always misses the point. ``As usual ... always''. Not simple or elegant. Not relevant, but neither are your comments. > You use a shell for file operations So `vi foo.gz' works why? > and you use an editor for editing. Right. Not a viitor. Not an emacsitor. Those aren't even words! > Why is there any need to muddle the two? Vi is simple and elegant, And is an actual editor. > whereas emacs is well... Not an editor. It's a desktop environment under the delusion it's an editor. It's still a better editor (no ugly i/a/e/etc. just to type in text) and desktop environment (M-x customize is the best thing I've seen) than anything else out there. > rather bloated For a desktop environment? > and not very elegant. How can something be more elegant than Lisp? > Would you use a chainsaw to cut a diamond? I think not... No. But I wouldn't precariously balance said diamond between my fore-finger and tongue, either. I'd use a real tool to hold it. > Cheers, > Nicholas Jon Cast -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/