From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:06:08 -0400 From: Kris Maglione To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Colors and other fun Message-ID: <20070627220608.GE28917@kris.home> References: <08d52a5efa996c205c60302e84f5cbcc@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h56sxpGKRmy85csR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <08d52a5efa996c205c60302e84f5cbcc@coraid.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 88c328b0-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --h56sxpGKRmy85csR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:56:46PM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: >my first reaction to russ' note was that vim hasn't so much provided >an editor, but an editor development platform for people who don't >want to start from scratch. You're thinking of Emacs. Vim, internally and externally, is a=20 monolithic mess (I'm no Emacs appologist, by the way). It's got=20 scripting languages and knobs and bells and whistles and chimes=20 and thorns cyanide. But it's not a platform. It's an editor that=20 you can try to mangle to behave in ways it normally wouldn't.=20 Emacs, though, is an OS, which has some editor functionality.=20 It's a platform on which to build an editor. It's also large,=20 complex, and beyond my ability to wield. --=20 Kris Maglione Any line, however short, is still too long. --h56sxpGKRmy85csR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGgt9QseQZD8Aui4wRAohgAJ9DtxDoRfDRhnh4gzYNl4/QGjAexACgkVw1 dSp4D9Hfeb172BfljjLZeJc= =76oc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h56sxpGKRmy85csR--