Re: [chat] Editor anxiety

[Steve Kowalik <stevenk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At  4:44 pm, Friday, October 26 2001, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx mumbled:
> Given that the popular UNIX editors are pretty fully featured, does anyone
> else apart from me ever worry that they aren't getting everything from them
> that they can? Does anyone else set aside time to try and learn their tools
> a bit better?
>
I work with some clued people, and the Clueons just tend to be thrown
around, and they stick in your mind, and you gradually get shown cool
features. (IRC is quite good for this, too.)
But to answer the question, sometimes I try. Most of the time I get lazy and
get someone to show me/tell me.

> I'm thinking of vi and emacs specifically. I once got a fairly complete vi 
> command reference that ran to 11 A4 pages printed out. 
> 
Emacs would be quite a bit larger, I'd imagine.
I have a a vi reference mug at home (EverythingLinux.com.au has them) and
friends and I were joking about the 'Emacs Reference 44-gallon drum', or the
'Emacs Reference Shipping Container'.

-- 
                                                    Steve
<jim> Lemme make sure I'm not wasting time here... bcwhite will remove
      pkgs that havent been fixed that have outstanding bugs of severity
      "important".  True or false?
<JHM> jim: "important" or higher.  True.
<jim> Then we're about to lose ftp.debian.org and dpkg :)

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