[HECnet] VT-62?

[Sampsa Laine]

On 2 Oct 2013, at 22:51, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 10/02/2013 03:18 PM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Emacs has too high of a learning curve for me...with vi I prefer
vim.

Emacs has an OBSCENE learning curve.   But if you give it the time
that it takes, it will reward you for the rest of your life.


I full agree with that sentiment, I can use Emacs to a basic degree
(I don't progam in elisp or anything) and it is a very effective
editor.

Shame it doesn't come as standard on all *nix boxes, I have to revert
to vi (UNIX) or nano/pico (most Linux distros)

Emacs builds on most everything, and is packaged for most (all?) Linux
distributions.


Quite often I'm on a client server which won't let me install anything
outside the formal spec, never mind compile it. Usually the servers 
don't even HAVE a C compiler installed.

So then it's traumatizing trip back to vi-land..