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Re: Having difficulty turning programmer onto emacs. What to demo? Featu


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Having difficulty turning programmer onto emacs. What to demo? Features?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:09:22 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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.

-- 
David Kastrup


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