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[Davide Del Vento]

I use vi/vim mostly for historical reasons: my mentor introduced me to that
and I stick with it since it met my needs

I actually have no strong feelings about it

In the past I had been always surprised on how well vi dealt with HUGE
files, a little less so these days... but the definition is HUGE obviously
has changed....

How about using a text editor inside the browser? ROTFL

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:22 PM Stephen Queen <svqueen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Most of my career I spent working with embedded computers.My brother
> worked on super computers and beowulf clusters. I quickly became somewhat
> proficient with VI/VIM. He on the other hand went to the dark side and used
> emacs. For those who have never worked with embedded systems, no matter how
> small the OS footprint is, there is usually some form of VI/VIM. No matter
> how hard I tried I could never convince my brother that emacs was not only
> bloated, but inferior in almost every aspect. He actually tried to convince
> me that emacs was superior to VI/VIM! As time went by, our discussions
> became more and more heated. I just couldn't see how he could think that
> way. It has caused a major rift in our relationship. Can anyone suggest a
> way to show him the errors of his way so that he will repent from this evil
> and come back to the light?
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:41 AM Maxwell Spangler <
> lists at maxwellspangler.com> wrote:
>
>> I hope you've really enjoyed the recent increase of activity on BLUG.
>>
>> This list, like many other LUG lists, can be pretty quiet for weeks at a
>> time.
>>
>> It's been nice to see people still reading and still engaged in
>> discussions.
>>
>> But its pretty uncomfortable to be on the defensive side, so perhaps
>> someone else could ask a few questions or make some strong statements to
>> keep the activity going?
>>
>> [image: :-)]
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --
>>
>> Maxwell Spangler
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