From: rbs{at}snippets.org
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 Roy J. Tellason wrote:

> It's sorta like those folks that are saying that because I want to run
> Linux I should learn how to use vi, or worse yet, emacs.  I'm used to
> the kind of convenience I had with Qesit under dos, or vdo2 under cp/m
> (a 4k executable!).  Or WordStar, for that matter, where the design made
> one heck of a lot of sense -- I can do things a *lot* faster if I can
> keep my hands in normal touch typing position and not have to be
> reaching for function keys and similar stuff.

I'm about 180 degrees out of phase with the rest of the world... I started
out using emacs as my editor of choice and now use it everywhere *except*
on Linux. In my old office - now just storage - I have a whole box of
various media for different machines, all with EEL code to make emacs look
and feel the same across the various machines and terminals I used. When I
got to PC's I looked around for emacs and finally found Epsilon which is
arguably the best Emacs clones ever written. I'm now using Epsilon 11
under Windows for most current work. However, when I'm running a shell
session on the SNIPPETS server, I use Pico. One of these days, I may
configure emacs on the server, but for the time being, Pico is OK.

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