Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

Frank Cox wrote:

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:48:10 -0700 Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:

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It's an awful editor. I wish I could hire the person who came up with the user interface, only to have the satisfaction of having him/her fired five minutes later. With no severance package.

Viewed in the context of the time when it was originally created, it's a work of genius. There's a reason why it became the default text editor on Unix systems.

I don't deny that. Interlaced video, at the time it was invented, was a great idea. Now it's a huge harassment for anyone doing video processing. The steam engine was a huge step forward - a few hundred years ago. And look at it now.