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

Bart Trojanowski bart at nexus.carleton.ca
Wed Apr 18 10:23:36 EDT 2001


On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, David F. Skoll wrote:

> 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.

Is there a way of skipping over a {} block in (X)Emacs?  That is one
feature that I like in vim.

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