Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:46:35 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Colleen Cahill <ccah at earthlink.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Worldcon & Capclave
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

vi rules!!!!
(Colleen runs for cover)

>What was wrong with edlin??  ;-)
>
>Personally, I like TPU, but that only works on VMS.  Most powerful text
>editor I've ever used.  Helped write a full-featured news reader in it for
>instance (a tiny bit of C code was required to handle the socket interface,
>the rest was in TPU macros).
>
>Before anyone jumps in and mentions emacs, I've never liked, or used,
>emacs.  I tried using it a couple of times, but the command set rapidly
>exceeded my memory ability for storing random strings of meaningless
>characters.  Sort of like teco that way.  Emacs is at least as powerful as
>TPU, but for me, unusable due to the user interface "design" and choice of
>macro programming language (which I've been told is LISP...I nearly
>sprained my brain once trying to figure out how to write code in that
>thing...CAR, CDR, CONS...).
>
>-- Mike B.
>
>--
>This is a GENUINE Tag Line(tm)!  Don't be fooled by cheap imitations!

Colleen R. Cahill
ccah at earthlink.net
Librarian by Profession, Reviewer by Avocation, Reader by Addiction