On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 10:22 AM Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com> wrote:

> One of the reasons that I chose vi over emacs was architectural.  At a
> certain
> level, vi was a text editor and emacs was an operating system, and since I
> was
> running UNIX and was a UNIX philosophy person I just didn't want to be
> running
> an operating system on top of an operating system just to do text editing.
>

I chose emacs because of muscle memory (Both the VAX and TOPS-20 machines
at school had emacs as the default editor) and also because it lets me
program better. I didn't let the fact it accomplished that by trying to be
an OS or LISP-M or whatever get in the way of using the best tool for the
job. In the 90s this meant that I had to be careful about the machines I
used it on. These days, it just doesn't matter. Mostly, though, it was
finger muscle memory :)

Warner