[oclug] UNIX philosophy (was Re: vim rulez...)

[David F. Skoll]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

>     Here's a question I plan to post and get flamed for on Usenet, but I need
> to ask it. If the Unix philosophy involves having small applications working
> together to accomplish your task, then does not Emacs violate this philosophy
> in attempting to do everything?

Yes, it does.  But so does Perl. :-)

I like emacs.  I don't have problems using the keyboard to move the
cursor -- arrow keys work fine (just like in vim.)  But to each his/her
own.

--
David.