From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87pu2bt2uc.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: Subject: Re: [9fans] samuel Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:49:44 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 64c26276-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com (Russ Cox) writes: > Yet you try to turn this thread into an editor war. No, actually I was saying that I think I can use just about any editor well, and there are particular idiosyncratic reasons that I prefer emacs. Other people have particular idiosyncratic reasons to prefer other editors, more power to them. > > Actually, the most important reason I don't use vi is that I use the > > Dvorak keyboard, and the use of positional keys in vi (hjkl) is a pain > > when you are using a different key layout. > > Speaking of which, maybe you can clear up some other things. > What's the One True Byte Order? Are PCs really better > than Macintoshes? Is Linux really better than Windows? > Is worse really better? Huh? I'm a little confused; vi happens to be wedded to a qwerty keyboard layout, and that's one reason I don't use it anymore. I'm not sure what that has to do with any of the rest.