Re: [9fans] samuel

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

> Emacs is not an editor, it's a comprehensive user interface
> environment.  

And it's also an editor.

[snip religious arguments for emacs the comprehensive,
emacs the all-encompassing, emacs the chameleon.]

> So I find editor wars singularly boring.

Of course they're boring: they perfectly fit Needham's
definition of a religious war -- one in which there is no
content.

Yet you try to turn this thread into an editor war.

> 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?

More religious wars!

Russ