Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Jai Dayal]

I think more people use Vim than emacs. Not sure if there was any
scientific poll done on it.


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 12:01 AM, PJ Weisberg <pjweisberg@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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. :-)
>