Humor: Cargo Cult Programming

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:17:01 EST
Derek Martin said:

>As for the first one, while it's neat and can be convenient, if you
>can ssh into the system then you can ssh in and run vi(m), with very
>little extra effort.

Well yes, but when you're editing several different files at the same 
time, it's very convenient to have different emacs buffers with 
several different files opened in order to be able to quickly and 
easily cut'n'paste between the files without using the mouse.

Don't get me wrong, I ssh into systems and use vi all the time.  As a 
matter of fact, I often have emacs up and running on my main system, 
but will use vi in an xterm to edit some file on the same system.

>I find that if I'm editing one file on a
>given system, there's a fair likelihood that I'm going to edit
>another or execute some command on the file I just edited as well, so
>logging in usually really just isn't that big a deal.

Agreed, and it's easy enough to just scp said file to the local 
system and edit that way as well.

>The second one, I admit, is a really cool feature.  I don't know if
>vim has it or not...

You mean the rectangle thingy?  I've not seen it anywhere else but in 
emacsen.
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