On Monday, June 7, 2021 at 5:23:49 AM UTC-4, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> On 2021-06-05, Cindy Hamilton > wrote:
>
> > Linux, baby. Linux all the way. All hail the power of the command line!
> > Bow down to the One True Text Editor.
> What? vi or vim? I haven't used the damned program for fifteen years, but
> I remembered how to use <escape>.

Shouldn't that be "vi or emacs"? That's the real holy war.

I find vi and vim to be so similar it's not worth distinguishing between them.

> Then I had to remember slrn. I
> recompiled it, all by myself, several years ago for the hell of it.
> I've read damned near every article since I quit posting and managed to
> squeeze a few in. I'm a work in progress.
> I'm in the process of futzing around with .slrnrc for the past few days
> and forgetting that I have a mouse. Three days ago, I even tried posting
> to Joan (three times) and failed. I'm partially back.
> People may notice some misspellings. My nonfunctional newsreader used to
> highlight them for me. Now, I spell in the raw.
> Or, are you an emacs girl?

Oddly enough, I found the learning curve for emacs to be too steep.

Besides, wherever you go, vi is there.

Cindy Hamilton