On 2017-04-04, rickman  wrote:

> On 4/4/2017 6:27 AM, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking of getting it vaguely back on topic-ish as Yet Another vi v
>> emacs debate!
>
> Which side are you on.  My old editor, Codewright has had a stroke and I
> am finally learning a new one so I can use the same editor on the rPi
> and the PC.  Right now I am struggling to learn Emacs as I have heard so
> much good about it.  But it doesn't do much through the GUI.  :(

I took a look at emacs a while ago.  However it was just a bit too
foreign to wrap my head around.  I think tab handling was the straw
that broke the camel's back.

> Does VI even run on the PC?  How well does it deal with the Unix NL vs.
> PC CR/LF issue?  Codewright would just preserve what it saw used in the
> file being edited.  That was *great*.

Dunno about a Windoze version of vi, but I'm sure something exists.
However, if I call up a file that has CRLF line endings in vi on my Linux
box, each line has a blue "^M" at the end; the CRLF endings are preserved.

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