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

[Tom Legrady]

Open emacs, load the file which automatically starts perl mode, find the 
right place, press tab to autoindent, type your code.

In college I would compile, print out a long list of errors, and go one 
by one in vi to fix them. Then I discovered that emacs allowed you to 
invoke the compiler in another window, and provided commands to go to 
the next error. Of course, I don't compile any more, but I never looked 
back.

Tom

On 2021-11-03 11:18 p.m., Liam R E Quin wrote:
> 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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