editor wars ad infinitum...

[Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX]

In article <197 at mipos3.UUCP> mike at mipos3.UUCP (Michael Bruck) writes:
:I don't have any real preference for one editor over another, although
:I do try to stick to one editor to do most of my work on, but I have noticed
:an interesting trend here.  We recently switched to Unix workstations from
:a VMS environment, and our draughting technicians, who are not CS majors,
:or computer afficionados in any way (they just use the machine to get their
:work done) have been given a choice of editors (vi and emacs), and without
:any prodding, they all seem to be drifting towards using emacs.  I haven't
:investigated this to find out why yet, but it may be interesting to find out.

I cut my teeth on Teco (not war?) in the 60's, then moving to ed and vi,
henceforth to CP/M and Mince (Emacs like) and now back to vi (and Emacs on
PC-DOS).

My impression is that Emacs is easier for some forms of editing, but not
maintaining nroff macros and C code.  Searching is better on vi once you grok
regular expressions, and global commands are not "native" to Emacs.

My thoughts on Emacs might change if Intel ever makes enough 386 chips for
me to replace my AT motherboard with a Unix friendly engine and run GNU Emacs.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX Author of Pro-YAM communications Tools for PCDOS and Unix
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