On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 15:40 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:04:16 -0500 > > Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Should I try to learn > >> vi (Vim) (which obviously will help me, if I ever need to > >> administer a remote box) or install Emacs or something else, > >> for the gcc editor? These two usually result in religious wars. Emacs is *very* powerful and customizable and extensible. Probably makes the learning curve longer. But it already has definitions for several languages. Vim also has some. I never used emacs much as I already had a "cake walk" into vi (now vim) because it uses a lot of what you find in regex, which I was intimately familiar with, from heavy "ed" usage before vim was a gleam in someone's eye. If you already have some familiarity with regex (grep, sed, et al), you'll probably find vim faster to learn. Then I would suggest that. Otherwise, take a quick browse of the man pages for both, pick one or the other and use it (almost) exclusively. You'll quickly become competent if you use it a lot and take brief reads of succeeding sections in the man pages or tutorials. > ><snip> -- Bill