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- From: beust@rhea.inria.fr (Cedric Beust)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: GNU Emacs vs. the world . . . (was Re: C Programmer's Editor of Choice?)
- Message-ID: <25797@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:13:40 GMT
- References: <mwm.1b4b@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <paulk.0xb0@terapin.com>
- Sender: news@sophia.inria.fr
- Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
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- In article <paulk.0xb0@terapin.com>, paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz) writes:
- >> 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.
-
- I think he was simply kidding...
-
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