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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: GNU Emacs vs. the world . . . (was Re: C Programmer's Editor of Choice?)
- References: <mwm.1b4b@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Message-ID: <paulk.0xb0@terapin.com>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 18:25:53 PST
- Organization: BBS
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- > Wanna get really grossed out? I still use ed and ex regularly. I
- > can make a one-line change to a file faster than most visual
- > editors can repaint the screen (or half, if you're using
- > emacsclient). People who've never used line editors just can't
- > understand how I can work "blind". But that's the fastest way. And
- > it also means I don't have any trouble doing batch edits with sed
- > and/or ed.
-
- I hope your excuse for using line editors is that you're working on
- an ascii terminal with a limited baud rate? No decent editor running
- locally should be slow enough in repainting the screen to justify the
- use of a line editor.
-