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Re: Having difficulty turning programmer onto emacs. What to demo? Featu
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Having difficulty turning programmer onto emacs. What to demo? Features? |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:09:22 -0000 |
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LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com> writes:
> Simply don't! Trying to convert vi users is useless.
> VI is an editor, emacs an IDE.
>
> It's like trying to convince bikers to switch to cars.
>
> If you insist to do so you can fight some myth:
>
> 1. loooong startup: show emacsclient
> 2. not usable over ssh: show emacs -nw
I'd rather show
emacs /ssh:username@host:filename
Why run the editor in an ssh session if you can just tunnel the file
transfers instead?
> 3. clumsy keybindings: show one of the vi-modes
Uh, that's "familiar keybindings", not "unclumsy keybindings". In terms
of clumsiness, superimposing different keybindings is not a winning
proposition.
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David Kastrup