Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[PJ Weisberg]

On May 9, 2013 2:09 PM, "Jai Dayal" <dayalsoap@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 9, 2013 2:06 PM, "Jay Belanger" <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > And BTW, you said "visit", not edit.  Visit does not strictly mean
edit.
> >
> > From the Emacs manual:
> >    "Visiting" a file means reading its contents into an Emacs buffer so
> >    you can edit them.  Emacs makes a new buffer for each file that you
> >    visit.
> >
> > > You are just as ambiguous as you are inaccurate.
> >
> > Technically true, since he was both unambiguous and accurate.
>
> He was not accurate because he stated this could not be done in Vim.

Pish-posh!  Can Vim "read[ a file's] contents into an Emacs buffer"?  I
think NOT.

This thread should be retitled "Does anyone really use Vim?". I can't see
any reason to support Vim on a modern Emacs-based system, and I purpose
that everyone henceforth cease to put any effort into supporting it. :-)