[tpm] [Fwd: Re: Vim turns 30 today!]

[Liam R E Quin]

On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 21:20 -0400, Viktor Pavlenko wrote:
> > > > > > "AR" == arocker  <arocker at Vex.Net> writes:
> 
>     AR> How many lines of great code have been created with Vim's
> help since then?
> 
> No idea. I've been living in the emacs world :)

I spent a few months using emacs in the 1980s, but found i got more 
done with vi.  One day i was about to leave for dinner with some
friends, and realised the bug in some  C i'd been working on. So i
fired up vi, and needed to indent from  here to matching close brace;
i'd never done that in vi before, but it was obvious how: >% was the
command.

Afterwards i thought about what i'd have done in emacs - researching
how to do  it, maybe writing a LISP procedure to do it and binding it
to a key equenc, documenting it, testing it - by which timemy friends
would have finished dinner and gone home, and i've have forgotten about
the original code!

Well, that was me, i know plenty of people who swear by emacs :)

That was in 1983 or so, long before vim!

Liam

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