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[ale] Why I run emacs
- Subject: [ale] Why I run emacs
- From: michael at potter.name (Michael Potter)
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:18:00 -0400
- In-reply-to: <1282322595.2134.61.camel@zest>
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> snip
> Honestly, I would be *truly* happy if there were an editor like Emacs
> that was always in input mode (command mode in vi is evil, especially on
> low bandwidth, high latency links where you can't keep track of what
> fscking mode you're in),
> snip
That is weird. I find vi especially useful on low bandwidth, high
latency links.
That is probably because I have been using vi for so long my brain has
delegated knowing what mode I am to my fingers. ;).
vim has some add-on that allow programming it in Perl; some years ago
I tried it once and it bloated up the memory footprint of vim so I
stopped trying to use it. That is probably not an issue today.