Comments on: FTE – a DOS-style editor for Linux

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 21:01:59 +0000

When Multics was king, ‘qx’ and ‘ted’ were the editors of choice.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:51:58 +0000

I'm with Dustin and Steve, Vim is the One True Editor ;)

EMACS stands for two things, as far as I can tell. From the old, limited system resource days we have:

Eleven Megs And Constantly Swapping

and from the weird-ass key combos that you need to do anything useful:

ESC-Meta-CTRL-ALT-Shift

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 02:06:30 +0000

Dustin's my man!

Emacs is great if you need to check the phase of the moon while you are typing. I almost never need to do that, so I use an editor instead of a kitchen sink.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:14:45 +0000

Bah! Emacs may not be a bell-and-whistle graphic text manipulator, but it sure isn't the One True Editor. For that, one need only look to Vim. ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:06:18 +0000

That seems fair enough, Charlie!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:39:32 +0000

"same identity crisis as emacs"

Identity crisis, shmidentity crisis. Emacs, like God, is better defined by what it isn't than by what it is. To quote Per Abrahamsen, "operating system is what you call the features you left out of your editor."

Don't sully the name of the One True Editor by associating it with things that are merely bell-and-whistle graphic text manipulators.

(Blame my crankiness on Dave, who I plan to blame extensively for the fact that I have a sore throat and a fever right now.)