<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 1:29 PM aaronco36 <<a href="mailto:aaronco36@sdf.org">aaronco36@sdf.org</a>> wrote:</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Interesting article ...<br>
Vim vs. Nano vs. Emacs: Three sysadmins weigh in<br>
Three editors. Three experts. Which Linux text editor is right for you?<br>
<a href="https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/3-text-editors-compared" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/3-text-editors-compared</a><br>
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Of course *some* of us will rather prefer vi straight, over Vim and any <br>
others ;-)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Good point. I've always felt Vim was okay, but I learned vi back in the late 80s</div><div>so will always feel a certain pull towards it. I used nano while taking</div><div>computer security classes at CCSF several years ago and found it easy to use.</div><div>Haven't gotten around to learning Emacs, I probably should.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
And fewer ppl still might even rather use the jstar variant of the JOE <br>
editor in eager reminiscence of MicroPro's WordStar for DOS that was so <br>
prevalent way back ~four decades ago :o<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>One of my techie friends back in the mid 80s liked to call WordStar "DeathStar."</div><div>Probably not a bad description of it. :p I'll never forget using it at a startup in</div><div>San Jose I worked at back then, with its Help menu taking up half of the computer</div><div>screen. I got proficient enough at it that I was able to turn it off and use the full screen</div><div>for text. When I did that at one company I worked at a couple years later, I totally <br></div><div>freaked out my boss who had no idea you could do that. Arcane knowledge for</div><div>sure now but it was fun to know how to do that back then. *g*</div><div><br></div><div>-th<br></div></div></div>