notbob <notbob@nothome.com> trolled:
> On 2007-07-03, Rhonda Moffat <rm@justlinux.ca> wrote:

>> But it still isn't as powerful as vim. We doubt that there is
>> anything you can do with jed that you can't do with vim. And
>> vice versa is not the case.

> Nonsense. It is extensible and its power is limited only by the
> user's lisp programming abilities.

We hate the functional languages out of principle. What was it we
used to call lisp? Lots of Idiotic and Silly Parenthesis?
Something like that.

> vi, and variants, are great if you don't mind a dual mode editor.
> I hate it, so I think it sucks. Many hate multi-finger
> keystrokes, so despise emacs and variants. Again, nothing more
> sinister than simple preferences. (except vi is the heart of
> eee-ville!)

Actually there is a vi clone called "vile", isn't there? If jed, or
even joe, had existed when we started out on unix, we probably would
never have learned vi. But we did, and it's really like riding a
bicycle. Often, while using another editor, we will move our pinky
up and hit the escape key...

cordially, as always,

rm