Seriously…emacs? It slices! It dices! It changes your sheets, cleans the bathroom, reads your email, edits your files, borks your wife! It does it all!!
Meh…I want to edit text not take over the world. Vi/Vim works great. I did all my college programming assignments in vi over a telnet session to the university.[/quote]
As the old saying goes: “Unix is a nice operating system, but I prefer emacs.” I only use 0.00000000001% of emacs’ capabilities, but it’s nice to know I could fire up nethack if I wanted to go on a dungeon crawl.
I think it’s a matter of what you’re used to. I never could get past vi’s modal interface, but I started with TRS-80s (no full screen editor until the Model III, IIRC) so I’m hardwired to just type stuff in.
I’m doing the homemaker thing right now (in the middle of baking c. 40 dozen Xmas cookies as I write this), but I do almost everything with ssh and emacs when I’m working on something. It’s a nice way to work–everything is snappy, even on a loaded network across the country, and I just just need to toss php-mode.el and a copy of my .emacs file on a box to make it just like home.
The same is obviously true of vi and friends, though vi is installed on practically every *nix box ever shipped so it’s even easier.
The poor bastards running Windows/VNC spend half their time waiting to connect and the other half waiting for screen refreshes. I would feel sorry for them, but I’m too busy getting stuff done. 🙂
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Josh, you will note that your job ad is still near the top. 😉
