Re: [lojban] emacs etc.

["Lex Spoon" <lex@cc.gatech.edu>]

pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> emacs must be one of the longest running aplications in computer history, and 
> the debate about it is as long.  When I got my first home computer around 
> twenty years ago people were already arguing that I should have emacs rather 
> than whatever pitiful thing I had (Wordstar, I recall -- talk about weird 
> programs).  The dispute was already between wonks and users and does not seem 
> to have changed.  emacs can do everything, but, at least then -- and some 
> comments suggest still now -- takes forever to do anything (four keystrokes 
> to get a capital at one time -- but only two more for Glagogithic).

This is too harsh.  Emacs is extremely fast once you learn it.  Whenever
I have to write a huge volume of text, I try to do it in Emacs.


-Lex