Editor to program in C

[Richard England]

Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:34:09PM +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
>   
>> Emacs is my editor of choice, and I disagree it has a learning curve.
>> ...
>> <snip>
>> vi on the other hand ;)
>>     
>
> Aw, crud.  I've dealt with this stupid war for 28 years.
>
> And just to throw gas on the fire--so I'm not pacifist, sue me--I still
> think Emacs is overblown for an editor.  A comment I made about Emacs
> about '82 or so on Usenet was, "If I wanted an operating system, I'd
> get one.  Emacs has everything except the kitchen sink."
>
> And someone pointed out the icon for Emacs was...well, guess.
>
> Another valid comment about Emacs back then:  "Put your coffee cup on
> the keyboard and roll it around; it will hit keys that all do
> *something*."  (Problem was, probably nothing you wanted.)
>
> Hey, strokes for folks--the great thing about Unix/Linux was summed up
> in another quote from those long-ago days:
>
>   Unix doesn't just let you shoot yourself in the foot.  It asks you
>   what caliber you want.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> 	Dave "No fancy quote; I'm tired.  Where's my martini?" Ihnat
> 	dihnat at dminet.com
>
>   
Quote picked up somewhere:

"emacs is a fine operating system, all it lacks is a good editor"

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