On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 23:49 -0500, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
>
> I'm an emacs user who's nearly completely useless in vi. But, really...
> it just doesn't matter if emacs isn't installed by default. If you want
> it, you know how to get it. And let's be frank: emacs is not something
> that a user who is unaware of it might stumble into and suddenly find
> himself blindingly productive. (Nor, for that matter, is vi.)
>
I agree. My problem is not that emacs is missing in development stack.
My problem is when there is something wrong with the computer and I
have to boot in the rescue mode, I can't rescue anything because emacs
is not there. I wrote on a piece of paper how I would save and exit in
vi, or exit without saving in vi, but that paper is gone now. I wish
vi had some tutorial the way emacs does, so one don't get lost in it.
I'd recommend you use nano instead (which is, I believe, installed by
default for just this purpose). It has the main keyboard shortcuts
permanently displayed on screen, so you can't lose 'em. :)
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